NHS Fife tries to silence nurse - Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton - thread #3

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Sandie Peggie, a nurse at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy (VH), has brought claims in the employment tribunal against her employer; Fife Health Board (the Board) and another employee, Dr B Upton. Ms Peggie’s claims are of sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimisation. Dr Upton claims to be a transwoman, that is observed as male at birth but asserting a female gender identity.

The Employment Tribunal hearing started on Monday 3 January 2025 and is expected to continue for 2 weeks.

Access to view the hearing remotely can be obtained by sending an email request to [email protected] headed Public Access Request (Peggie v Fife Health Board) 4104864/2024 and requesting access.

Thread 1: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5186317-nhs-fife-tries-to-silence-nurse

Thread 2: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5267591-nhs-fife-tries-to-silence-nurse-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-thread-2

The hearing is being live tweeted by https://x.com/tribunaltweets and there's additional information here: https://tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/peggie-vs-fife-health-board-and-dr. This also has threadreaderapp archives of live-tweeting of the sessions of the hearing for those who can't follow on Twitter, for example: archive.is/xkSxy.

Well women aren’t relevant except in connection to men. Obviously.

Short and sweet.

Well she did live with a bit of a racist 🤣

NC asks if he authored any of the posts, he replies no.

He's finished now

Touche!

God, you couldn't make this tribunal up.

Sounds off

No idea how that is going to feed into anything, except for the bit where he corroborated that his wife was having a horrible time at work.

I'm not sure what evidence he can give on her behalf

To back up her account of being upset. I thought he did that ok.

No idea who is up now

That was utterly pointless, apart from being an attempted character-assassination-by-proxy.

Is it normal for a spouse to be questioned in this kind of tribunal? Do I have to account for what my bloke sings on the terraces at Stamford Bridge* whilst I'm at home watching repeats of Murder She Wrote?

*currently "his name's Cucarella/he eats paella/he drinks Estrella/he's got fucking massive hair"

<fly Fifer raises hand in agreement>

After I retired, I had an ortho appointment at the Vic. The consultant who saw me - and told me that they couldn't consider knee replacements for at least another 10 years - explained that my problems were genetic: each knee falls into the category of patella alta - the arthritis is only a contributory factor.

I nodded and (in Standard English, albeit with my Fife accent) said "Thank you - at least I know now."

"Oh, you won't understand what "patella alta" means..."

"I did Latin at school. I presume you're telling me that my knees sit higher than they should." (No, I didn't say that in a snotty manner.)

He seemed rather astonished.

With other doctors at the Vic, I noticed that their attitude changed somewhat when I gave my profession as "teacher" or "retired teacher".

Another relative, Nicole SPs daughter

Now Sandie's daughter.

They were thin on witnesses. He was there to corroberate her experience. On balance, they may trust that his own views wont sway the panel.

And now Ms Peggies daughter. Bizarre

Sandie Peggie's daughter. Sweet child!

This is more of the same as to what she witnessed when SP got home

*currently "his name's Cucarella/he eats paella/he drinks Estrella/he's got fucking massive hair"

<clutches pearls at the racist stereotyping>

Perhaps to refute the homophobia allegation?

Nicole Peggie lives with her mum, dad, sister and dog ❤️

At least they'll all be able to talk about it amongst themselves now, it must have been a nightmare.

NP: Altercation the night before with a man present

@WearyAuldWumman

Yes I used Dr (phd) when arguing for my knee replacement which perked things up somewhat