NHS Policy Audit - working party - thread #2

[KnottyAuty]

This is a thread about “keeping the receipts” on NHS Policies prior to the Supreme Court ruling on 16th April 2025.

Our working theory is that there were no single sex spaces for NHS Staff or Patients in the entire country before that date, having all been removed by stealth. We are aiming to prove this by auditing websites and policies for all the UK trusts and using the results to raise public awareness. As well as recording what has happened historically, the information will form a baseline so we can check which Trusts comply or defy the judgement in due course.

We are working around the country region by region. If you fancy getting involved in a bit of grassroots feminism then please do join in to help!? Each trust takes about an hour to research and you can upload online without giving any personal details away. Comment below and we can give you the link to an online survey - it changes for each region.

Thanks soooo much to all the vipers who have helped so far and @ Twoloons for doing a great job with the thread wrangling!

Here are the press articles we’ve managed to generate so far:

Scotland:
25th March: The Telegraph
https://archive.is/dTUhY
26th March: Scottish Daily Express
https://archive.is/kaLCB
26th March: The Telegraph
https://archive.is/iSD9m

London:
21st April: The Telegraph
https://archive.is/awGuz
23rd April: The Telegraph (in conjunction with another thread by NHS mumsnetters)
https://archive.is/1DO8d

Original thread #1 here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5291237-nhs-policy-audit-working-party?page=1

Thanks for the update and further searches!

@umbel @FarriersGirl If you can do some digging on this, that would be great. I feel like the more I look, the more avenues to explore I keep finding!

Yes, exactly. In a captured institution there really needs to be some way to whistleblow outside of that organisation.

There is a published list of prescribed person’s whistleblowers can report to including their MP. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/blowing-the-whistle-list-of-prescribed-people-and-bodies--2/whistleblowing-list-of-prescribed-people-and-bodies#healthcare

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that every one of them is captured by gender ideology, with the possible exception of the Sec of State for Health. Certainly CQC, NHS England, Healthwatch, the GMC, the NMC all are. Just like the supposedly neutral FTSUG.

Capture the public institutions and they'll enforce your ideology for you.

@KnottyAuty and @TwoLoonsAndASprout , is the intention that we get on with the North East while you crunch the previous data at your own pace, or do you need a break? Don't want to overburden you but otoh if we're about, maybe we can use the time wisely and have the info waiting when you're ready for it?

I think you guys can get started on the North East! Give me a few mins and I’ll pop a list of trusts on here.

Ok, new list for your research delectation:

Trusts in the North East and Yorkshire

Acute

• Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
• Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
• County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
• Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
• North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Northumbria Health Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
• North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
• The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
• York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ambulance

• North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust
• North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
• Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Community and mental health

• Bradford District Care NHS Trust
• Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
• Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
• Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
• South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist

• Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Can I have Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust please?

Interested to know if a Children's Trust has better safeguarding (lives in hope).

All yours! Give us a min - I have got ahead of @KnottyAuty here, who has to create the form. I will DM you as soon as it’s ready!

Oh crumbs. Give me a mo

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I'm back home and ready to tackle another. Quite happy to start at top of list with Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Or anything else, just let me know.

Airedale all yours. I’ll DM you the new link. Thank you!

May I take Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust please? Happy to wait for the new form to be generated, no rush

You may indeed! And we have a new form, so I will DM you!

I'll bid for:
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

All yours - will DM you!

So a very quick first look at Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear's website - all of their policies are only available to staff (via a closed intranet) anyone else has to use FOI! There may be a transgender policy available from Ermine but no sign of a single sex accommodation policy yet (Ermine has requested a response) the website looks quite low in info at the moment. Will have to do some searching elsewhere I think

Just catching up but I’d be concerned about advocating for some sort of whistleblowing process.
This already supposedly exists in various forms. Hospitals are required to have a “Freedom to speak up” guardian and other people you can go to if you need to whistleblow. My experience of it (admittedly 7-8 years ago and in a limited capacity) was that it was essentially toothless and there’s really no guarantee of whistleblowing protection. People are still bullied and forced out of jobs for speaking up in a supposedly protected disclosure.

Look at the saga that is the case of Dr Chris Day if you want to lose faith in it completely.

What we need is Wes et al to state openly that the NHS needs to remove these policies and that failure to do so will result in financial penalties. They need to be given no choice about it.

And can see PPs have already posted about the whistleblowing issue.
If we’re up to Calderdale on the list I’ll do that next.

Please may I have Leeds and York Partnership

Sorry I missed this, I agree, but I’ve got my hands full with Dep of Health. If anyone can do some digging on CQC and its predecessor organisations, that would be great.

There also seems to be some key NHS guidance done by other bodies like NHS Estates and NHS Modernisation. Which means it is hard to find as it was accessible only to certain groups and so isn’t in the archives.

I’ve got a few super busy weeks ahead so won’t be able to contribute much but please allocate me one of the NE & Yorkshire Trusts and I’ll get on with it between IRL events!

Calderdale is yours. Will DM the new link.