Annex b

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I've joined forces with @no2annexb on Twitter.
Annex b in a nut shell is the nhs ridding single sex wards and making them mixed sex.
A huge safeguarding issue.
Information about it can be found on the web, I'm on the app and struggling to add link.

Under annex b a trans woman can be placed on a female ward without a grc and staff can't stop it
Under annex b a non binary can choose male or female ward and staff can't stop it.
How we are expected to treat out patients by gender ie how they present not by genitals .
Safeguarding

I did a speech about this last Sunday at Birmingham LWS
I now have 200 posts cards to send!

So to get involved as some people have asked me.

DM me your reasons why you want or think the nhs should scrap annex b , safeguarding etc
It's totally anonymous.
I then post to nhs England on your behalf.
So far nearly 6500 have been sent.

I will let you know when been posted.
Please spread the word.

Why no edit button 🙄

The nhs are giving away the right to single sex spaces.

Mind Doctor MAX PEMBERTON: Mixed-sex wards are dangerous
mol.im/a/12157899

Another bump
That's to wonderful mumsnetters I have just posted another 9 post cards

Please send me your thoughts on annex b and the new guidance from the nhs confederation regarding single sex services for women.

Thank you

My mum is sometimes a psychiatric patient and sometimes in a normal hospital. She would be confused no end by being told a man was a woman, especially when she is suffering delusions/paranoia already. She struggles to trust staff when unwell and certainly wouldn't if literally lying to her. It's so hard when you can't trust your own senses. This is just messing with people already unwell and so unfair.

Also on a ward (general or psych) the risk of rape is real. And I'd fear my mum wouldn't be safe. And doubly so when she doesn't want to be there in the first place. It's almost Jimmy Saville like in its abuse of people's safety as well as mental wellbeing.

Everything about this is wrong.

@HidingInAForest can I with your permission edit that down to put on a postcard
You raise some very valid points
Its anonymous

Yes absolutely. The whole thing terrifies me as having been a visitor to a confused person in hospital many a time (ie my mum) I can see how frightening it is without a grip on reality so being told a man is a woman while vulnerable is just not right. Couples with the very real safety issues of having male bodies in a female ward and the lack of ability to protect themselves.

Thank you x