NHS bonkers portal questionnaire

[IcakethereforeIam]

In a sane world I'd think this was a practical joke

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/nhs-patients-asked-genders-sexual-preferences-religion/

https://archive.ph/71TK8

Is it even legal to ask these potentially intrusive and unnecessary questions? Are they all going to St Ives?

[NoBinturongsHereMate]

Knowing the track record of US companies when it comes to complying with international regulations, I wonder whether they have checked this data collection and processing is all allowed under GDPR.

[PaterPower]

I signed up for a Lidl plus card earlier today and it asked me what gender I “identified as”

No option to select an appropriately GC response. Just male, female and prefer not to say (IIRC). Bloody ridiculous.

[Crankywiddershins]

Only 159 religions? I know for a fact that they haven't included mine, exclusionary bigots!

[LittleMissViper]

If the whole reason behind this madness is because a software developer received a letter with a title of "Mr" that they didn't like... Surely the easiest solution would be to simply remove the archaic title system and just send letters to people by "Firstname Lastname"? A much easier software fix and less data to store.

[donquixotedelamancha]

I wonder whether they have checked this data collection and processing is all allowed under GDPR.

Pretty sure it doesn't. How can 'identifying' as pansexual or queer possibly be relevant to your health care?

Sex and sexual activity are relevant question, the rest is not.

[DuesToTheDirt]

I've always assumed they asked for religion (which has been done for a long time, has it not?) in case someone had a health crisis and wanted last rites. 159, though?

[mumda]

I posted a thread recently about the rainbow nonsense that someone has done foi requests for

[Chersfrozenface]

Amongst the 159 religions, does the NHS list Jedi, Druidism and Pastafarianism?

All of which I may or may not have put as my religion on Censuses.

[IcakethereforeIam]

To save starting a new thread I'm putting this latest NHS bonkers here, although note the disclaimer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/27/nhs-workers-asked-if-greyromantic-abrosexual-or-endosex/

https://archive.ph/4Jlo2 paywall sexual?

This is getting so nuts it's reminding me of the stories they used to run (although the were often completely fictional I believe) on batshit directives from the EU.

[Crankywiddershins]

@IcakethereforeIam What new madness is this? It's no wonder the NHS is collapsing, denied adequate funding for decades and then eaten from the inside by ideological maggots.

[Nellodee]

@LittleMissViper

If the whole reason behind this madness is because a software developer received a letter with a title of "Mr" that they didn't like... Surely the easiest solution would be to simply remove the archaic title system and just send letters to people by "Firstname Lastname"? A much easier software fix and less data to store.

I once got a letter from the nhs addressing me as Bishop Nellodee. I told them and they changed it, but I actually rather liked my new title. I wonder why they didn’t make sweeping changes at that point and only waited until now?

[borntobequiet]

@Nellodee

I once got a letter from the nhs addressing me as Bishop Nellodee. I told them and they changed it, but I actually rather liked my new title. I wonder why they didn’t make sweeping changes at that point and only waited until now?

I used to teach database design in school. However much I tried to dissuade them, some would always include every possible title you could imagine in the Title field name. You may have been the victim of one of my former pupils.

[Chersfrozenface]

You know those websites that sell lordships?

I once enquired by email about buying one and asked whether I (female) could call myself Lord. The reply was yes, and that a number of their customers did just that.

(I know the titles can only be used "in non-legal contexts for enjoyment purposes", but I'd bet that if I can state my gender as 'male' on NHS records at will, I could damn well use the title 'Lord'.)

[CastlesinSpain]

Do you think maybe that the person asked to set up this NHS survey is simply taking the piss because they think gender stuff is a load of rubbish?

[IcakethereforeIam]

Tom Harris has followed up on this in the Telegraph. He makes a point that is very familiar to regulars on this board, what would Stonewall and it's clones be without the grift?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/battle-for-abrosexual-rights-culture-wars-will-never-end/

https://archive.ph/Arwpc And after all it's a pa-ay wa-a-allll 🎶

[DuesToTheDirt]

I came across abrosexual only today, and had to look it up. How is it different from bisexual, and why does the NHS want to know the sexuality of its workers anyway? How is this in any way relevant to their jobs? And what rights are they missing?

[SoupDragonsFriend]

@DuesToTheDirt

I came across abrosexual only today, and had to look it up. How is it different from bisexual, and why does the NHS want to know the sexuality of its workers anyway? How is this in any way relevant to their jobs? And what rights are they missing?

And what happened to the idea of privacy or the thought that some people during the course of their life change the relationships they choose to have, or go off the whole idea of sex and relationships altogether? Are you supposed to keep your employer updated if that happens?

[IcakethereforeIam]

The Telegraph is going a bit ham on this but this is another interesting article

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/28/nhs-workers-lgbtqia-survey-endosex-abrosexual-waiting-lists/

https://archive.ph/pPgP7 another bloody paywall

This tickled me

For those valiantly tapping away on your Enigma machines trying to crack the LGBTQIA code, I’ve already had a go. I reckon the Q stands for Quarrelsome, the I is Irrelevant and the A for As if it Matters. 

I can empathise with this article. It's amusing but you can tell the writer is serious and probably quite angry 😠