NHS Grampian doubling down - survey, please complete

My mother is in Australia (and a former nurse) and she is about to have a hysteroscopy. I said to her; 'Make sure you insist on pain relief' and she said wtaf? They are done by GA of course. What the heck am I talking about.

But some of the stories I have told her about medical services in the Uk result in shock and disgust.

I've asked them about their definitions, about how they'll manage requests for access to their "woman's group" from trans and non-binary people (trans with and without GRCs), and if they're planning to use self identification into the protected characteristic what risk assessments and impact evaluations they've done to ensure this doesn't affect their aims.

Also about whether they intend to record gender and sex, and if not how are they going to assure the safety of trans and non-binary people and what risk/impact assessments they've carried out to ensure no harm is done if sex is deliberately or mistakenly misreported/concealed by patients.

If they're intending to not record sex, how are they ensuring there is no financial/administrative burden in asking unnecessary questions repeatedly about pregnancy (for example) in populations where that's not a possibility (ie men, mostly unambiguously male), and what risk/impact assessments have they done on populations vulnerable to unclear language, eg ESL, learning disabilities, dementia.

Similar questions re: women's health - how will they ensure appropriate inclusion of gender diverse females and if answer is gender neutral language, what risk/impact assessments have been done on groups vulnerable to unclear language.

I suspect the answer is no impact/risk assessment outside that very small community of interest.

What a terrible questionnaire.

Didn’t do the questionaire but made a few comments also noting that mental health was largely not mentioned in the equalities section, but I didn’t read it all to be fair.

Done.

I just filled it in too. Agree with @ghostofadog , it’s appalling. It has special focuses on trans and the travelling community. No sign of monitoring.

On the plus side there are free text boxes.

It needn’t take too long to complete.

Thanks for the link, have filled in. Absolutely incredible that they have gone public with such a shockingly poor set of outcomes. It's clear where they spent all their time and effort - trans trans trans! Worth noting that according to the census there were 1877 trans people in total in Grampian health board area, 0.3% of population. Even fewer gypsy travellers (487 people) and yet virtually the whole document is about these two groups.

Done. (Nothing to stop anyone at all from completing the survey…)

The NHS in Scotland is a disgrace.

Filled it in

its a total shocker. They might do something or other in 2029. For women
so it was just transgender people who came first and staff would get trained on this, then travellers then women. Nothing about race or age or pregnancy. Or age.

Wow that survey was embarrassing to read, looked more amateurish than a school homework assignment

Oh good point! I didn't spot that.

These are my thoughts too. Little on disability (just focusing on staff) and nothing on age. Nothing on people living with dementia , which is a huge issue. But a heavy focus on transgender.

Done. The women's health section was woeful, just vague 'raising awareness ' no specifics or changes in service provision.

And why so much focus on trans but nothing on race, religion/belief, age?

Good point. Age, particularly is a huge issue for the NHS for obvious reasons.

Yes I saw that about the group offering training

I'm sorry to hear that, MovingCrib. There are many problems iwth maternity care throughout Scotland.

That survey presented as it is is insulting. They've clearly done a good bit of handwringing on the transgender section, added a fair bit of detail (although no proper explanation of terms) and then given up and tossed in a couple of weak sauce statements at 'women' that are so vague as to be utterly meaningless.

My maternity experience at Aberdeen Maternity was woeful

I mentioned pain relief/GA for Hysteroscopy

The problems that I can see are largely that they're not clarifing their terms.

Are they working on the basis of sex, or gender, or a weird and confusing mix of both?

But also that they're not apparently giving women the same consideration as people with special gender identities.

'Improve access to healthcare '

That's not exactly a clearly laid out KPI, is it?

The women's section has been dashed off in about ten seconds with fuck all thought and no detail. Why no mention of maternity care? Could it be because of the woeful provision in many areas of Scotland?