NHS ward policy change.

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Has anyone else seen this??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68923861

Health minister seems to be absolutely on it and wants trans people to be in the ward according to sex. I think...???

This would be huge and used to be something personal to me as my mum is often I hospital or sectioned and would just confuse her more to be told the man in her ward isn't. And they're so vulnerable as most of the time there isn't a nurse physically in the room.

However my other thought was if there's an election will this still go through?

(and also possible I've misread. I'm half asleep!)

Its relatively easy to have sex markers changed on NHS records, even without a GRC. Its possible that wards may not know the patients sex until they see them in some situations.

Ensuring that sex is sex on nhs records may avoid relying on women having to speaking up.

It is written into the NHS constitution that people have the right to expect to be treated on a single sex ward, and receive intimate care from someone the same sex as them. Annex B, allowing trans people (but not the rest of us) the right to choose according to their feelz, was added later.

Im reading it as single sex wards are single sex, but only when practically possible, and trans people can be placed in single rooms if possible.

So if a space is available on a male ward or single room, the man with gender will be move there.

But im sure different hospitals will read it as whatever they want it to say.

It may not be the case, but I thought one of the reasons for single rooms was for when someone is close to death, giving the dying person and visitors privacy. If those rooms are given to trans patients, where do the dying patients go?

Or the ones with infectious diseases... there is generally not enough room to house these and patients often have to die behind curtains on the ward as a result.

I agree with pp that sex marker clarity is of utmost importance. I note that the new RCGP trans policy also calls for this. I really do have hope that it is just a matter of time.

Apologies I had to deal with something so only had half an ear to listen to him.

They read out a list of things he’d said previously “TWAW” “It is wrong to say only women have a cervix” his face was a picture!
He was initially very evasive, bringing in the “toxic” debate and I even heard him reference Brianna Ghey to illustrate how toxic the debate had become. He was pushed on what his actual beliefs are and he said he believed that “safe” spaces and NHS wards should be based on biological SEX!!!

He was also asked if he should apologies to Rosie. He didn’t answer that one directly.

It really is worth a watch.

Here is a bit of the interview.

x.com/GMB/status/1785212404416000254

Honestly as an NHS nurse I can't see how this would work in practice. My trust doesn't have enough beds as it is so, we open 'escalation' areas which are essentially repurposed parts of theatre recovery. Guess what? They are completely mixed, picture a nightingale style long ward, then each bed has either sex, any age
As nurses, we have complained as we are very against this. We are told it's exceptional circumstances only this has been in place since July last year.
On my ward the rooms are always full of infectious patients or patients who need protection due to their medical condition.

Yes, but if Annex B (transgender trumps “same sex” what then?