Rape and sexual assault in NHS - 35k cases in 5 years

[ArabeIIaScott]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65671018

(description of sexual assault in article. )

'An NHS spokesperson has told the BBC that all NHS organisations must have robust measures in place to ensure immediate action is taken in any sexual cases reported to them.
But the BMJ and Guardian investigation found that fewer than one in 10 NHS trusts has a dedicated policy to deal with sexual assault and harassment - and that managers are also no longer obliged to report abuse of staff to a central database.'

'In a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said: "The health and social care secretary is working closely with the NHS and recently convened an urgent meeting with NHS leaders to discuss how to root out this vile behaviour and ensure services are always safe for staff and patients."'

Perhaps ensuring sex segregation in wards might help towards ensuring services are safer.

What's a man doing sitting outside a women's shower room? As you say, Arabella, strict sex segregation would be a very easy start to reducing the number of these attacks.

Infuriating article

’people’ are sexually assaulting ‘people’ in the NHS

if only we knew more about these people. Then maybe we could spot patterns and put mitigations in place to keep ‘people’ safe

both examples in the article are of men assaulting women but I expect that’s just a coincidence

I was dismayed to see that there was no breakdown by sex of victim or by sex of assailant.

Around three quarters of the incidents were committed by patients.

There seems to be a determined lack of information of all kinds, but yes, as noted, the 'gendering' of the issues is notably absent.

Those pesky women and their wandering hands..

There's a dong an elephant in the room.

That's because the NHS are like the police, recording by "prefered pronouns/gender" rather than sex, but we all know it's males doing it, however they chose to identify.

Some of the replies to Sarah Champion on this read like FWR. She doesn't seem to have engaged with them yet:

twitter.com/sarahchampionmp/status/1660920426506190849?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

Bet she won’t respond either.

And why are they not telling us who is committing the sexual assaults.

the pesky women and their wandering hands