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What are side rooms and why they are not an appropriate solution for accommodating trans identifying individuals in order to maintain single-sex wards- a thread:
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Sir Keir Starmer tells LBC trans people will be accommodated in hospital 'side rooms' as he is challenged on single-sex spaces buff.ly/3VrPUJV
We heard recently from a worried granddaughter "My nan is in a care home. I have power of attorney. Both she and I have requested same sex care. They have started sending male carers in the night when she is desperate for the toilet." Her nan does not want men turning up in the middle of the night to her room. This is not dignity.
Horrific case: alleged rape of a vulnerable woman in a hospice by a male healthcare worker:
A male nurse in Sweden is accused of raping a woman who was receiving hospice care and who died very shortly after. Men should not be allowed to be alone with vulnerable women, ever.
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Women and girls often need same sex care. Especially vulnerable women needing intimate care. Given most carers are female this is not difficult to do and should be provided as a basic matter of safeguarding
My dear friends sister has Down syndrome, was sent a man to do her intimate care and he raped her. All they did was pay the family out and fire him. Poor family didn’t want to subject her to a confusing and traumatic trial. She had terrible PTSD and was put on strong drugs that made her totally out of it. Saddest thing ever 😭😭😭
"The NHS is putting women at risk by placing them in mixed-sex accommodation, an analysis of care regulator reports has revealed, amid a record-high admission rate." 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Another horrific case of vulnerable women being sexually abused in their own home after a male carer was sent. Enough. Same-sex care for women - in women's own homes they are uniquely vulnerable and the abuse can be hidden.
⚠️ A social care worker has been struck off the register after r-ping a woman in her own home in Edinburgh.
Nigerian national, Innocent Megbolu, 37, was jailed for a PATHETIC FIVE YEARS after he brutally attacked the woman in her flat in Leith in August 2023.
Married, father-of-two Megbola has now been struck off the social care register, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and faces likely deportation after his sentence.
🤬A disgraceful sentence for an absolutely horrific crime. And the 'likely' needs to be a DEFINITELY regarding deportation.
There are more reports of sexual assaults and sexual harassment on mixed sex wards than single-sex. Doesn’t women’s safety matter? tinyurl.com/46wvm6xp
Females on an older women’s mental health ward are being moved and mixed in with men. Completely unacceptable @SwanseabayNHS.
It should not be left to the staff or families to complain. Elected MSs and MPs must step in now.
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Arrests made for illegal-treatment, neglect and rape, at a mental health hospital. Horrific.
Fifteen members of staff at mental health hospital are arrested over claims of rape, ill treatment and neglect trib.al/ma34mA0
"Sex abusers fly below the NHS radar
Amid rising concerns about the handling of misconduct cases and safeguarding of health workers, as well as the risks of surgeons’ potential ‘God complex’, a former teenage victim shares her story" observer.co.uk/news/national…
“Karen Titchener, who was appointed Scotland’s first patient safety commissioner in September, said she was concerned to have received complaints of biological men who said they identified as women being treated in female-only wards.” 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
"A doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting 38 patients in his care while working at two NHS hospitals from 2017 to 2021. Nathaniel John Spencer, 38, faces 45 charges, including 9 counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 and 3 counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration." Horrific.
"Midwives are being asked to fill out 'farcical' electronic forms which record newborns' gender identity and sexual orientation as part of the rollout of a £450 million software upgrade across the NHS." Has the NHS learned nothing? dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
“To date, the process of scrutinising the bill has been inadequate. The government’s refusal to endorse a position has left advocates like Ms Leadbeater in charge of critical legislative stages. When she called on “expert witnesses” to provide evidence at the bill’s committee stage, she was accused of stacking the deck and not requesting evidence from a number of medical professionals in Canada who now oppose assisted dying following its introduction in that country.” thetimes.com/comment/the-tim…
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“NHS manager who groomed young girls on Snapchat jailed for 28 years for rape and abuse” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y0…
This is very chilling. Women who ask for female only care should receive just that. "A leading women's rights campaigner who tweeted that a transgender GP 'enjoys intimately examining female patients' has revealed how police threatened to arrest her" dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
"During my time in the home, I often found residents lying in wet clothes or on soiled sheets.
I heard women screaming from behind closed doors because male carers were doing their intimate care." No dignity. No care. Women terrified. #RightToSameSexCare bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7…
No you don’t just ask a patient which ward they want to go on. Single-sex accommodation is not single-sex if you allow men onto the ward. Women need privacy, dignity and safety at their most vulnerable. Disgraceful that this view wasn’t challenged.
Many of the stories we receive are shocking. This one last highlighted issues with NHS chaperone policies. "A woman realises her chaperone is not female whilst she is half-exposed - left distraught and unable to attend a subsequent smear test" 1/5 caringaboutdignity.org/a-wom…
