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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Will the abolition of NHS England mean Wes Streeting has more control over Trusts gender policies etc?

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Somethingthecatdraggedin7 · 14/03/2025 19:13

I have tried googling but still don’t fully understand the role of nhs england.
Will it’s abolition help end the madness of most of the individual trust’s policies as regards men in women’s spaces and other gender related issues?
I was thinking it would give Wes Streeting more control by removing a layer of management.
I appreciate he hasn’t righted all wrongs but given his stance on puberty blockers I am living in hope.

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WORKERbeen · 14/03/2025 19:26

Potentially, but there is a lot more at play to that.

I have in my past worked with NHSE, they have a huge office in Leeds and the trans stuff is ingrained. There are male and female toilets on each floor, that are accessible by one door for each sex, opposite each other. When you open each door there is a corridor, at the end of the corridor leads to a large number of gender neutral toilets and then a door which leads to the sex specific facilities.

The amount of floor space the toilets take up out of the entire office space is staggering, on each floor there is toilet spaces that are larger than the foot print of my 4 bedroom house x2…

However, I am more concerned how the impact of 9,000 job losses (mostly in Leeds it would seem) will damage the economy, NHSE employs a lot of women too, who have greatly benefited from flexible working arrangements that far exceed the offering of the private sector, they are brilliant women with a lot of talent, who may never work again or see there potential stifled.

Also there are a lot of crucial centralised services that are run from NHSE, from the spine (your main patient record), to pharmacy dispensing tools, referrals, vaccination invites etc etc that if left to local ICBs or trusts to manage, it will mean we are back to a postcode lottery again for basic services

Grammarnut · 14/03/2025 20:14

I think it should mean the Secretary of State (in this case Wes Streeting) will once more be responsible for NHS outcomes - this was the point of setting up NHSE in the first place: to remove responsibility for health outcomes from the Secretary of State and thus from Cabinet responsibility. Should be better. But awful for the 9k losing their jobs - so many women, too.

Somethingthecatdraggedin7 · 14/03/2025 21:45

@IwantToRetire my apologies for not spotting your thread.
Great minds and all that.

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IwantToRetire · 15/03/2025 00:39

Somethingthecatdraggedin7 · 14/03/2025 21:45

@IwantToRetire my apologies for not spotting your thread.
Great minds and all that.

Well its more its quite an upheaval. And I thought more might want to comment.

But I suppose we just dont know. Will have to keep an eye out.

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