NHS Midwives Record “Gender Identity” and “Sexual Orientation” of Newborn Babies
Midwives at NHS hospitals are recording the “gender identity”, “pronouns” and “sexual orientation” of newborn babies in what critics have slammed as a “farcical” and “ludicrous” state of affairs. The Times has the story.
Several NHS trusts have launched a £450 million patient record system, called Epic, which is produced by a giant American IT company called Epic Systems.
The default settings for registering a new patient, including newborns, contain an optional form asking their gender identity. It also asks for sex assigned at birth, pronouns and sexual orientation.
Campaigners said it was “farcical” that NHS trusts had chosen to adopt “ludicrous elements of the software imported directly from the USA, such as the gender identity of babies”.
One midwife working at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust told the Mail on Sunday that they were “shocked” to find during a training session on the software that there was no option to record a baby’s biological sex on the form.
They said: “Why on earth hasn’t this form been adapted to be appropriate for a newborn? I hope that common sense will prevail and nobody will try to fill in those boxes. Unfortunately, common sense doesn’t seem to be in good supply.
“These are not mandatory fields. But this is the backbone of documentation that will follow babies for life. It’s proof the baby exists and is needed to get a birth certificate. The fact that it’s asking for assigned sex at birth is worrying.”
The US software has been adopted in at least 10 NHS hospitals, after Epic won contracts reported to be worth at least £450 million in 2023, including at King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s in London.
The form for registering a new patient on the Epic system also includes an “organ inventory”, including “organs the patient currently has”, “organs present at birth”, “organs surgically enhanced or constructed” and “organs hormonally enhanced”.
In 2023, NHS bosses said the technology would be updated to record biological sex only, after midwives filling in forms for newborns reported they could only select “gender identity”.
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Epic-ally stupid and satanic.
The Lucifer Publishing Company, now the Lucis Trust is part of the United Nations. Anyone can check this out on the internet, it is not a secret. Founded by Alice Bailey , its name is a good clue as to its purpose. Its aims are clear and so unholy that the whole thing is routinely dismissed as a conspiracy theory – except by the UN. Androgyny is central to all occult beliefs and practices.
What about organs which were surgically damaged? Can’t these be recorded somewhere as well?
Essential in the National Harm Service.
How on earth can they record the newborn’s pronouns if it cannot yet speak? Surely pronouns these days are a matter of personal choice. Will they actually assume that a male child will be “he” and a female child “she”? I’m shocked to the core.
Hmm. I have a nasty feeling they’ll ask the ‘birthing-parent’ and put down whatever ‘ze’ says.
Such a start in life would be child abuse in my book – depending on the answers.
Bloody evil morons.
A perfect example why the NHS is not-fit-for-purpose, should be scrapped 100% and we then start again with a clean sheet to provide a system that takes the best elements from various continental (and other) models to create a Health System that a) works and b) will not bankrupt the country. The problem is, of course, not the dedicated nurses, docs and other health professionals — it is the useless vampire squid entanglement of voracious “Managers”, most of whom could not manage their way out of a wet paper-bag, and who spend their time dreaming up, or commissioning/purchasing idiotic Systems & Forms such as are described in this article.
Well said. Somewhere beneath the layers of bureaucracy are thousands of brilliant, dedicated and experienced practitioners longing to be set free to reach their full potential, treating and helping the public.
My local hospital group uses Epic and I rather like it.
If I have a blood test, the results are sent to my mobile ( often before I leave the facility).
I can txt the doctor, ask about meds, all available for review.
Sounds like it was configured by a woke numpty but the implementation here is top notch