Mental health nurse almost died when trans hospital patient tried to strangle her using a drawstring from his hoodie - as attacker is jailed for life for attempted murder

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I agree far too much pandering to the trans gender ethos to the detriment of that lone nurse on her shift,
I think it would have been more preferable to have had a male and female nurse to reflect the trans identity thing,

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Also anyone who harrasses and is violent or abusive to medical staff in hospitals etc can be prosecuted by police and courts,

In reality how 🤔 robust are these procedures implemented if a patient is abusive in any way or violent etc then?

how often are patients warned about their behaviour or and prosecuted by the police and courts then?
especially in highly stressful 😫 emotionally charges environment and everything that goes with that accident and emergency situation then?

Mrs Afzal should surely be able to sue the trust for putting her in that situation?

No female health care worker should ever have been alone with Sutton. So when the request to remove the male was made a second female should have gone in his place.

It sounds though like having two members of staff had nothing to do with staff safety, but was pandering to the trans identity, worried about offending. Possibly also it was the male who was chaperoned by the female to ensure no complaints of a sexual nature were made. In any case, the physical safety of female staff did not appear to be of concern to the trust.

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You have Claires Law quite recently,

this kind of extremely disturbing case illustrates the desperate need to have flagged up
a medical workplace situations of a list of dangerous problematic nhs patients such as this
for medical workers to have strategies and ways to protect themselves from them,

Such as medical version of Clairs law adapted variation for hospitals and clinics and dentist practices
If that makes sense.

I can't see in the article that the offender was on testosterone.

You'd think a man would have objected to the female nurse watching him un/dress and using the bathroom, wouldn't you? I wonder why it could have been different in this case ...

Born female patient with mental health issues and a history of violence, being validated in a 'male gender identity' and treated with testosterone. No way that could cause problems. Very interesting that, despite the 'maleness' of their stated identity the patients wish for privacy and intimate care was not to have opposite sex care - eg they wished for privacy from the actual male carers while going to the bathroom despite their gender identity.

That’s potentially the worst having of cake & eating it I’ve seen - using it to try to murder someone.

If the presence of a male nurse was objected to & 2 nurses are required, the answer is 2 female nurses. Not putting the life of the female nurse at risk.

FtM trans patient who was supposed to be supervised by both a male and a female member of staff

Trans patient objected to the presence of a male member of staff so it was decided that he leave the room and the vulnerable female member of staff, who knew nothing of the trans inmates shocking record of violence towards medical staff was left alone with this violent weirdo

Afaik such decisions are (or were) based on the offenders preference and a safety assessment- the safety of the trans prisoner, not that of other inmates or staff.

She was.

I did not see about the female prison in the article though.

To me this seems more about her being a dangerous patient, and about no safeguarding or warning being provided for her endangered carer, than it is related to her saying she was a man/transgender.

I have read that taking testosterone increases a woman’s aggression though, so perhaps, if she was, that was a factor.
And if she had severe trauma and mental problems perhaps that had caused her gender dysphoria.

I thought she was born female?

Housed in a female jail. I wonder how that was decided?