Hospital Refuses to Operate on Sex Assault Victim Who Asked for Single-Sex Accommodation, Telling Her it “Does Not Share Her Beliefs”
A Conservative peer has complained to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a private hospital was accused of refusing to treat a patient who asked for an all-female nursing team. The Telegraph has more.
The Princess Grace Hospital in Marylebone, in the West End of London, allegedly told a patient she could not have complex colorectal surgery after she asked for single-sex accommodation and said she did not wish to use pronouns.
The patient, a retired lawyer, told MailOnline that during a clinical pre-op assessment, which involved intimate procedures, she believed she had encountered a transgender woman in a blonde wig and make-up who had made eye contact with her.
“I began to wonder if it was just a coincidence that this member of staff with a ‘gender identity’ had made their presence felt to me in such an inappropriate way during my first visit,” she said.
“I began to suspect that I had been targeted because my patient records showed that I refused to use pronouns and wanted single sex facilities, although I have no evidence of this.”
The patient, who said she is a victim of sexual assault, said she then wrote to the hospital’s parent company, HCA, requesting single-sex nursing care. She said she believed that “mixed sex hospital facilities are unsafe for women”.
The patient claimed she then received an email from Maxine Estop Green, the hospital’s Chief Executive, telling her the operation was cancelled and that the hospital “did not share her beliefs”.
The email said the hospital was committed to protecting staff from what is described as “unacceptable distress”.
Baroness Nicholson, Chairman of the parliamentary campaign group Children and Women First, has written to the hospital’s Chief Executive saying she was “astonished” to read the email stating that an operation was being cancelled because the hospital didn’t share a patient’s beliefs. She demanded that the hospital release a list of their “beliefs” and called on the CQC to launch an investigation.
The CQC confirmed it had received a letter from Baroness Nicholson and said it would “be responding directly in due course”.
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As a private patient this woman might be able to go elsewhere for the treatment she needs. Sadly the majority of us who rely on the NHS have no alternative but to accept whatever woke nonsense is imposed on us.
Again…ready your molotovs.
Prior to having a scan earlier on this year, a nurse came in with a clipboard and a list of questions. Am I male or female? Male – check. Am I pregnant? I didn’t answer. The nurse looked at me and somehow worked it out. I don’t know what it was, maybe the fact I was having a prostate scan and I’m in my sixties.
Seriously though, in a hospital setting, the first and most important question should be “are you a biological male or female”. Following pronoun questions should be optional and no judgement should be inferred from someone saying they don’t have one or refuse to answer that.
Somewhat diminishes your confidence in those taking responsibility for your health and wellbeing.
I fear that, at present, it would be a challenge to devise a method of further diminishing my confidence in those allegedly taking responsibility for my health and wellbeing.
True.
One would have to resort to Mengele et al to plumb lower depths. Apologies for resorting to Nazi comparisons.
No apologies required.
You should have said “yes” and then waited to see what would happen…!
You’d be a loser to deal with Maxine Estop Green, the hospital’s Chief Executive.
In the law, to estop is “to bar or preclude by estoppel” Pronounced “I stop”, by the way…
The six words seven million NHS potential patients would like to hear: “The doctor will see you now.”
“be responding directly in due course”.
There’s the problem. They’ve got to think about it. It should be an IMMEDIATE response.
Exactly. Translated as; ‘We’ll ignore this for as long as possible and hope these horrible icky questions go away’.
Much like BBC w*nk sock Graham Norton when he’s asked about anything ‘trans’.
So it’s a religious hospital then. Have they thought of a name for their new-fangled “religion”, I wonder? And are they really so intolerant of other people’s beliefs?
The vicar at Grandad’s funeral had it right, we truly were a more tolerant society in years gone by.
yes the tolerance these days has woke clauses. That lady needed tolerant kind understanding because of her experience but the hospital priority is woke ideologically driven policies rather than patient care . Political not a medical institution then.?