Really? In A Female Dominated Workplace?

Gender-based prejudices carry disturbing echoes of historical patriarchal assumptions and myths about the mysteries of female bodies. They lead to women being perceived as anxious, hysterical or irrational, and can result in their symptoms being dismissed as psychological rather than physical, if they are taken account of at all.

And that’s not all… 

This gender bias is compounded for Black and other ethnically non-white women by racial stereotypes. One of these, the belief that women from particular ethnic groups have higher or lower levels of pain tolerance, has the same outcome – inaccurate, mistimed or missing pain relief in labour.

People who have recently used maternity services, or visited an NHS hospital, may find this surprising, because the make-up of staff is invariably nearly 100% ethnic minorities. As well as usually overwhelmingly female!

It is vital now to implement ways to regulate for safer care in a learning healthcare system which recognises the valuable contribution to safe and compassionate care that women’s voices can make.

Better start recognising some home truths instead! 

They Don't Seem To Have The Same Worries Over Other Procedures....

Leah Spasova, a psychologist from Oxfordshire, spent a decade fighting to obtain female sterilisation at her local trust. She was denied the procedure, which blocks or seals the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy, with the care board citing potential regret and costs as its reasoning.

Personal regret? When did that start to concern them? 

Now the health ombudsman has found in her favour and criticised the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board for its inconsistent approach.

The investigation found that the ICB had denied women NHS funding based on the risk of 'regret' while not applying the same a criterion to vasectomies. It concluded the policy was unfair as well as inconsistent and based on subjective reasoning.

At last, some common sense. Can we please see it expanded to other procedures?  

Paula Sussex, of the PHSO, said: 'The issue highlighted in Leah's case about the commissioning and managing of services by ICBs is not an isolated one. 'We are concerned that there may be similar wider problems affecting multiple areas of healthcare, and we have concerns that the system is not consistently meeting people's needs and is letting patients down.'

Not consistently meeting people’s needs? The could be the very strapline of the NHS!

Yes, You Have Been...

...like so many others who have lost loved ones in similar circumstances. And you won't be the last, either.

Relatives of a ‘respected’ dog walker kicked to death by a paranoid schizophrenic today said they had been ‘let down’ by the authorities who allowed his killer to live in the community.

Hard to disagree, 

Gary Carlisle, 62, was attacked at random by mentally ill stranger Jacob Hill, 32, near his home in Preston, Lancashire, early on March 12 last year. CCTV footage showed Hill behaving erratically before approaching Mr Carlisle with his arms outstretched just after 6am.A ‘plainly frightened’ Mr Carlisle, who was walking his dog, named Molly, backed off and ran away. But he was chased by Hill who jumped on his back and dragged him to the floor, Preston Crown Court heard.

Several shocked commuters witnessed the incident, including a female bus passenger who confronted Hill and shouted: ‘What are you doing? Stop.’ In response, Hill headbutted the woman in the face, before police and paramedics arrived on the scene.

Officers twice discharged a taser to incapacitate Hill, who was arrested shortly afterwards.

I'm tempted to suggest they need ones with more voltage. Or to deal with mental cases far more permanently.

In a victim impact statement, read to the court, Mr Carlisle’s sister, Jackie Watters, said their family had been 'let down' by authorities who allowed Hill to live in the community with 'normal people' like her brother. 

‘He has been snatched away from me,’ she said. ‘It feels so unfair. I can never forget those hours sat in the intensive care unit looking at him, stroking him… a man with a swollen head displaying every line, crease and bruise. 

‘The staff said they were the worst ever injuries seen in the ICU.’

 Yes, you have undoubtedly been let down - by people who will never face any consequences for it.

His daughter, Simone Hartley, added: ‘He (Hill) was known to mental health when he did this. ‘Our lives have been toppled upside down but he is okay and is being treated in hospital. 

‘Things need to be different. I do feel we have been let down. Changes need to be made so it doesn’t happen to someone else.’

But they won't be. 

Is The Clue In The Name?

The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) released a report on Thursday into the actions of the former orthopaedic surgeon who treated hundreds of children over five years. The review found that 98 patients (12.4%) experienced some level of harm, and 94 of these cases were linked specifically to the care provided by (him.).

Why was he allowed to continue for so long? Could it be because he wasn't British?

Oh, Posters, They Make Everything Work Better, Right?

From Monday, GP practices across the country will use posters to promote Jess’s rule, a new system aimed at preventing serious illnesses from being missed and needless deaths. It is named after Jessica Brady, a 27-year-old who contacted her surgery 20 times before dying of cancer in 2020. Jess’s rule urges family doctors to consider a second opinion, conduct a face-to-face physical examination or order more tests if a patient has had three appointments for their symptoms but no diagnosis.

Another piece of legislation named after a victim, and we all know how useful they often turn out to be, don't we, Reader?  

Posters advertising Jess’s rule have been sent to all 6,170 GP practices in England. The system was launched in September but the new posters will boost patient safety by reminding GPs to rethink initial assumptions, ministers said.

Will they? There are posters up in every single place of work, and public areas like train stations, and after the first day, how much notice is taken of them? 

The posters were co-designed by Brady’s parents, Andrea and Simon Brady, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care. GP surgeries will also receive a letter from Streeting and NHS England’s national medical director, Dr Claire Fuller, stressing the importance of Jess’s rule.

Which will go straight in the bin, because if something isn't backed up by consequences for failure, it's not worth the paper you'e printing these posters on. 

But it seems the case that brought about this entire policy is yet another 'gift' from the Covid hysteria:

Jessica, an engineer for Airbus, contacted her GP surgery about 20 times in six months before her death in 2020, reporting symptoms including abdominal pain, coughing, vomiting and weight loss. Owing to restrictions during the pandemic, she was offered virtual appointments and prescribed medications including antibiotics and steroids. She was also told she may have long Covid. She was finally diagnosed with cancer that had spread throughout her body, but only after her mother paid for her to see a doctor privately.

You gave the NHS the chance to slack off and not treat patients while still getting paid using a bad bout of the flu as an excuse, and this happened. You're not fixing this with posters. 

Tell Us Again How Diverse Students Are The Key To The NHS, Labour...

 ...we need to keep hearing it as the evidence against mounts up and up:

A newly qualified doctor who pocketed £10,000 in benefits while studying medicine has been suspended from treating patients. Dr Ramkali Kaur, 28, illegally claimed housing benefit, income support and carer's allowance for two years while completing her five-year degree at Queen Mary University of London.

And when she was caugght bang to rights, she simply hastily donned the Cloak of Victimhood!

She later lied about the fraud to a senior consultant and attempted to shift the blame onto an 'overbearing' female relative, alleging the woman promised to cancel her welfare claims but instead let them run on and even intercepted her post.

Yeah, yeah, tell us another one… 

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel has now found her guilty of misconduct and suspended her for four months, despite her protestations that she had been the victim of family pressure and financial hardship.

In her evidence, Kaur told of her upbringing in a deprived area of Birmingham and how she had been the only one in her family to be accepted into a 'prestigious and highly competitive' Grammar School.

A ‘deprived’ area, eh? 

For the GMC Ms Lousie Cowen said: 'Dr Kaur's conduct was of a repeated nature and showed a reckless disregard for professional standards. Her dishonesty was significant and she has provided only limited evidence of remediation, having not attended any courses on probity.'

Would any courses have workedon someone like this anyway? 

But Kaur's counsel Mr Andrew Faux said: 'This is a young doctor from very challenging background who has clearly made mistakes and had to grow up very quickly in the face of those mistakes.She then put her head in the sand and hoped things would go away, a response that continued through until the meeting in October 2022. The risk of Dr Kaur repeating her actions is low.''

Just the sort of attitude you want in a doctor - just ignore reality and ir'll go away! 

Ignoring The Evidence....

Official figures have revealed that more infant deaths are linked to marriages between cousins than drug abuse during pregnancy. Data from the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) linked close relative marriages to the deaths or ill health of 72 infants younger than one-year-old in 2023/24. Meanwhile 27 deaths were linked to substance abuse during the pregnancy.

Well, that sounds like something the government should be taking a stand o...

 Silly me. But then, even the NHS sees fit to ignore it.

The fresh findings come just weeks after the NHS was blasted for releasing fresh guidance that claimed cousin marriage offers benefits such as 'stronger extended family support systems'.

Not if the family doesn't survive, surely? 

Self Control Is Free…

In theory, anyone struggling with obesity can - without the expense of a private doctor - get help to manage their weight. Only that's not the full picture.

Well, it wouldn't be, would it - here we go again with 'health equality'....

Thousands of NHS patients are believed to be missing out. And with the NHS tightly restricting access, some working in the field warn a two-tier system around weight-loss drugs is developing - one that's benefitting the most well-off.

 As if eating less and exercising more wasn't an almost totally free option.

"It's scary," says Brad, a tech company worker in his 40s. He has been taking Mounjaro for a year and worries he may not be able to afford to continue. "I've lost 20kg and want to keep using it, but it's a lot of money. It's unfair."

 Have you tried self-control, or is it just that you can't be bothered and would rather take a pill or a jab? 

Nutritionists and GPs I spoke to have also expressed concerns about the broader system, and in particular whether existing health inequalities could worsen. "We cannot allow good health to become a luxury for the wealthiest by limiting access to weight-loss drugs to those who can pay privately," argues Katharine Jenner, executive director of Obesity Health Alliance.

Isn't the Treasury on the hook for enough of the drug companies' moneyspinners, thanks to our profligate PM? 

Accurate, To A Point...

 

...though the corridor's too clean, Matt. And there 's no fat nurse reading 'Heat' magazine and ignoring the patients in the corner.

Yeah, OK, Now Do 'Gender Reassignment' Surgery...

 Aparrently, a new film with the ubiquitous Pedro Pascal has cast a light on the popularity of leg lengthening surgery, and the NHS is worried.

...amid a wave of interest in the cosmetic procedure and clinics in Turkey offering discounts, the NHS in England has issued a stark warning, urging people against it. The surgery involves breaking the bones in the legs before pulling them apart to lengthen them over weeks or months.

Which sounds pretty extreme but is nothing compared to the horrors of trying to make a man into a facsimile of a woman, or even worse, vice versa. So why isn't the NHS similarly warning against this too? 

Prof Tim Briggs, an orthopaedic surgeon and NHS England’s national director for clinical improvement and elective recovery, said leg lengthening surgery was “not a quick fix”.

Neither is 'gender reassignment' surgery. We can tell by the number of victims who go on to kill themselves. 

“It is a serious, invasive procedure that can be beneficial for patients when there is a genuine clinical need but carries significant risks and requires informed discussions between patient and surgeon.

Yup, just like the modern day practice of hacking away a lump of flesh from a girl's arm or leg to fashion into a non-working penis so she can pretend to be male. 

“Patients face months of treatment, which can be extremely painful, with the possibility of infection, nerve damage, blood clots and even permanent disability.

Also no different. 

“Anyone considering this surgery for cosmetic reasons abroad, should think very carefully about the long recovery and the risks, and I would urge against it unless well informed about where they are seeking treatment.

Why aren't the mentally ill men and women who believe they are the opposite sex similarly urged to consider if it's the right course?

“Don’t gamble with your health or your life for a few extra inches without fully understanding the risks.”

But if you think you're really Arthur inside and not Martha, hop up on this table and we'll crack on! 

The NHS Is Not Worth A Candle Anymore....

It's not just wholly captured by the transcultists, but by the 'politics of envy' crowd too.

The British Medical Association strongly advises pupils who want to be doctors that they need clinical work experience to even be considered for a medical degree. But now thousands of children, including those on bursaries – around a third of the estimated 650,000 private-school pupils in the UK – are struggling to find work experience at key hospitals.

And why? One reason. Ideology.  

One would-be medical student from Emanuel School in south London was told by King's College Hospital Trust – their local NHS trust – that pupils from private schools were not admitted on to their courses, even if they lived in the area.And the MoS has learned of another, on a 100 per cent bursary, who 'applied to every hospital trust and GP practice within an hour of her home' including Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and Milton Keynes University Hospital but 'received either rejections or no responses from almost all' because of the school she attends.

Labour'a war on private schools has been enthusiastically taken up by all the big NHS trusts, so they are ensuring where you went to school is the determinining factor in whether they take you on, all while they plaster their hospitals with 'anti-racism' propaganda.

Last night, Gordon West, head of careers at prestigious independent school Stowe, said: 'This young woman is not from a wealthy background at all; she's from one of the highest priority groups there are. 'Policies like King's College don't account for stories like hers. By excluding private-school kids, they also shut out students on 100 per cent bursaries, many of whom come from families with very limited means.' He added that it was a common story for sixth formers desperate for medical experience to be turned away.

Well, it's not like we need home-grown medical personnel, is it? Not when we can import them from the Third World? 

Sources at NHS England said it was for individual trusts to allocate work experience placements.

Labour is a cancer in this country. And it's fully metastasised. 

This Sums Up The NHS, Doesn’t It?

 Private healthcare service: ‘A surgeon with a poor history? Let’s investigate and dispense with his services if we find he’s not up to snuff. We have to protect our fee paying customers’

NHS Trust:’We’re keeping him on, because the real customer is the government, and no matter what, there will never be any adverse consequences for us.’

QED

Starmer's War On Children

The mother of the eight-year-old blamed Labour's war on private schools for emboldening NHS managers to deny her child help with his crippling joint condition. 'If you discriminate against children because of the school they went to, where does it end?,' she asked. Her son was referred to a paediatrician at Kingston Hospital in south-west London after she noticed he was 'struggling to hold the pen well enough to write properly', along with other mobility issues.

At the hospital appointment she was asked to fill in a form which asked: 'Where does your child go to school?'

So parents, you know what to do now - lie. or cross out the question and write 'none of your business'. But of course, she didn't because we are all conditioned to fill in these forms to feed the hungry bureacracy of the sainted NHS, aren't we? 

And days later, she received a text message saying the child had been 'declined' the crucial next appointment with occupational health therapists. She then discovered that the specialist unit had written a letter to her GP saying: 'We are unable to see this child as we do not provide a service to school age children who attend an independent schools [sic]. We are only commissioned to provide a service to the mainstream schools.'

 And plenty of Tory MPs have lined up to hoof the ball into this open goal, but not one Labour MP dared say anything.

The boy's older brother – who has the same condition, hypermobility syndrome – had been treated without issue several years earlier.

They needed the time to get up their courage to do this, clearly.  

'I have complained bitterly and asked who created these eligibility criteria and where it says in the NHS constitution that it's OK to discriminate against independent schoolchildren.'

It doesn't, but they are clearly now emboldened to do so, because this isn't an isolated incident: 

The mother of an autistic girl in Somerset told this newspaper her daughter was denied access to NHS mental health services, and was told: 'If you can afford the school fees, you should pay privately. If you had kept your child at the local authority primary school, she would have been supported.'

Notice no-one is offering her the percentage of her taxes that pays for the NHS or comprehensive education back?

The Mail on Sunday understands that other NHS trusts have also refused occupational therapy treatment to children because they attend independent schools.

I thought I hated the NHS bastards enough...turns out I was wrong! 

You’re Missing The Point, Zoe, It’s Glimpsing Men’s External Ones That’s the Issue

The relentless demonisation of trans people has led us straight to a place where every choice is impossible, using words that recall, or should recall, the darkest days of prejudice and hatred.

Come off it, Zoe! No-one's herding them into camps - they have just been told what they should always have been told, had the medical profession not lost their minds - they are men, they were born men, and they will stay men until their dying day. 

I’ve spent the best part of 2025 in and out of various hospitals in London, and I have some observations that in a sane world would give a little texture to this debate, but in the world we’re in are just waved away, because of course it’s more important to focus on harassing the small number of trans hospital admissions there are, and ignore a wider system that’s in crisis.

Oh, so the state of the NHS is more of a danger than a six foot docker in a dress on the women's ward?  

My mum spent some weeks admitted in south and west London, and, in any six-bed, single-sex ward, a minimum of four people had dementia or, at the very least, had been so discombobulated by infection and unfamiliarity that they lacked capacity. My son, meanwhile, was in a male-only admissions ward in central London, after a pneumothorax, next to a guy who needed a pretty urgent mental health intervention.

Welcome to the NHS! It's failing - nice of you to notice at last!

When my mum died, though, it was in A&E, which is the last sentence I ever wanted to write. It would not have occurred to you to worry about who identified as which gender, nor would it have been possible to separate anyone, because the place was like a war zone. There was a woman in handcuffs, a man who vomited for 11 hours straight, people lying face down on the floor … I swear I glimpsed a man’s internal organ.

Then imagine the shock and distress experienced by vulnerable patients forced to glimpse an external one being waved around by a person the nurses refuse to call 'Mr', Zoe... 

So I don’t want to hear Wes Streeting off in some fantasy world where trans people are treated in private rooms in NHS hospitals, or Stephen Kinnock tying himself in knots about all the things that shall be done after “careful consideration”. I want to see politicians dealing with real problems, and journalists asking real questions.

For some this unwanted presence is an added insult, the cherry on the top of a bad experience and it doesn't need to happen, Zoe. It's not caused by lack of resources or overloading or poor staff management, it's caused by dogma. Why is this so hard to understand and sympathise with? 

Was It Just A Busman's Holiday?

A twisted NHS anaesthetist who injected a record shop owner with a deadly drug in a 'motiveless' attack has been jailed for 15 years. Gary Lewis, 65, collapsed to the floor in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on July 2 last year after Darren Harris, 58, plunged a a syringe loaded with a muscle-paralysing drug into his thigh.

Yes, it's this story.

Judge Simon Phillips KC described the attack by Harris, who was 'seeking to play God', as 'motiveless' and 'totally indiscriminate'.

'With that hypodermic syringe in your hand, you had the power to take a life and that is the outcome that inexplicably you wanted to achieve.'

If he’d only had a bit of patience, the NHS would have granted his wish legally, I’m sure…

Sean Smith, defending, said: 'Mr Harris, of hitherto good character, having reached the age of 57 years had contributed substantially to the hospital at which he worked. 'He has made valuable contributions to hospital care and patients over a number of years. 'This act has essentially robbed him of that good character and most importantly robbed his wife and his family of his support in the future.'

But more importantly, Sean, it very nearly robbed his victim of all those things... 

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said Harris' employment was terminated in August 2024. It said a review into the storage of medications, including controlled drugs, in cardiac theatres and general theatres was carried out in light of the incident.

And what did they find? Strangely, it's not reported. I wonder why.

Even Better, Actually...

 

Always relevant, is Matt....

They Look After Their Own....

The independent report, published on Wednesday, found that Calocane had refused to take depot medication – slow-release antipsychotic drugs administered via injection – each of the four times he was sectioned before the attacks.

And why is someone able to do this? 

The report states: “The inpatient teams involved in Calocane’s care were trying to treat Calocane in the least restrictive way and took on board his reasons for not wanting to take depot medication, which included him not liking needles.”

I don't recall that being a good excuse for those threatened with the sack for refusing the covid jab, do you? 

So, didn't they think he was dangerous? Reader, they did - when it was their necks on the line:

The report also found that a risk assessment in February 2022 had urged staff not to visit Calocane at home and if required to do so, not to go alone. The risk assessment notes state that Calocane had a “history of violence and aggression when detained … violence and aggression towards housemates … poor insight [and] does not agree that he has been unwell over the last 12 months”.The report found that the assessment had looked at the risk to staff, but it did not consider how to manage the risk of Calocane not taking medication and the “potential acts of violence” that could follow.

The potential acts of violence that were sadly carried out on innocent members of the public, and not the NHS wasters and sycophants treating this monster in human clothing.  

NHS England said it had decided to publish the report “in full in line with the wishes of the families and given the level of detail already in the public domain”.

Liars. They've published it because they've been backed into a corner and have no choice, plus they've almost certainly been promised nothing will happen to the ones responsible for his freedom.  

Dr Jessica Sokolov, the regional medical director at NHS England (Midlands), said: “It’s clear the system got it wrong, including the NHS, and the consequences of when this happens can be devastating. “This is not acceptable, and I unreservedly apologise to the families of victims on behalf of the NHS and the organisations involved in delivering care to Valdo Calocane before this incident took place.”

A government organisation that seeks to gag those complaining about its actions shouldn’t be trusted anymore.  

Well, One Part Of His 'Identity' Is Now Clear....

Amid the day long cross-examination by Mrs Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham, Dr Upton repeatedly said she was not a man. And Dr Upton told Ms Cunningham: ‘I am biologically female.’

The medic, who said the terms biological male and female had ‘no defined and agreed meaning in science’, told the tribunal: ‘Biological sex is a nebulous term and it doesn’t really mean anything, because nobody can accurately or usefully define biological sex because pretty much every human I’m aware of is at least in part biological and many of them have a sex characteristic.’

Dr Upton, who has worked for NHS Fife since August 2023, claimed gender is a ‘rough binary’.

Pretty rough, like his appearance? 

Dr Upton denied Ms Cunningham’s suggestion that the Christmas Eve encounter ‘ended at a time of your choosing once you’re satisfied you have asserted your dominance over her’.

‘It’s a gross mischaracterisation of what I’m trying to do. What I’m trying to do is de-escalate the situation.

‘And you can tell I’ve been trying to de-escalate the situation because I’ve repeatedly tried to de-escalate it throughout and the claimant [Mrs Peggie] has continued with pejorative and aggressive questioning.’

...overbearing, arrogant, heedless of how he comes across to normal people, unable to put up with someone challenging him, ignorant of the basic knowledge necessary for his job? 

Yup. He's an NHS doctor, all right.

Anyone wanting to hear more from this utter clown show should follow Tribunal Tweets for all the latest insanity.

Now Suddenly They Are Concerned About Wasting Taxpayers' Money?

It's never usually been much of a concern...

English-speaking patients are being pushed to the back of the queue in waiting rooms at NHS hospitals in favour of patients who need an interpreter, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Imperial College Healthcare, an NHS Trust with five hospitals across north-west London, prioritises patients who have been assigned an interpreter. The trust's aim is to avoid additional charges from the interpreting service.

One way to do that would be to stop it altogether. No speakee da English? No treatee here!  

It is unclear whether NHS trusts nationwide take this approach, but last night it sparked a row, with Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick claiming the approach lets down British NHS patients. The former immigration minister told The Mail on Sunday: 'Brits are already waiting too long for treatment. The last thing they should be subjected to is the indignity of being pushed to the back of the queue.

'This is yet more evidence of the pressure mass migration places on our public services and the difficulties integrating such unprecedented numbers.

The mass migration that happened under the 14 years your party was in office, Robert? 

'Non-English speakers shouldn't be given a queue pass.'

They shouldn't be here sponging off the NHS in the first place!  

Television doctor Sarah Jarvis said: 'I do understand the rationale in terms of reducing costs to the NHS. I would much prefer vulnerable patients to be prioritised.

'This is not prioritising on the basis of clinical need, which is what doctors believe in.'

Not all doctors, Sarah. 

Translation: "Oh No! We Accidentally Said The Quiet Bit Out Loud!"

Jewish organisations last night slammed an NHS Trust after an email urged its staff to boycott antisemitism awareness training. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust provoked outrage after it published a statement in its weekly newsletter warning staff 'not to attend' an 'inappropriate' session led by the Antisemitism Policy Trust (APT).

Whoops! Never commit stuff like that to print, chaps! Haven't you heard the term 'plausible deniability'? 

An email — sent by an employee from the Trust's diversity team — followed a handful of complaints about the APT made via the Black Minority Ethnic network. Claire Murdoch, chief executive of the Trust, interrupted her holiday to personally telephone the head of the APT and apologise for the egregious 'error'.In an email seen by the Daily Mail, she told staff that the statement about the training had been made in 'error' after it had not 'gone through our usual sign-off process'.

Well, someone's face is red...or black or brown, I guess. 

She added: 'I have asked that colleagues look into how such a message was communicated in error and we will get to the bottom of it.'There have been a small number of concerns raised by some individuals via the BAME network with the Trust about the antisemitism training.

'This will be properly investigated - which is the right and proper thing to do - and will be shared both with the APT and NHS England.

'I have personally telephoned the chief executive of APT this morning to apologise for what I can only describe as poor process and error on our part.'

And not a slip-up exposing your true feelings? 

It is unclear if the person responsible for adding the statement to the newsletter will face any disciplinary action or will be required to attend the antisemitism training themselves.

I'm betting the answer's 'no' to both.