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== Tavistock Transgender Clinic ==
== Tavistock Transgender Clinic ==
* Green zealotry is affecting healthcare outcomes.<ref name="eletric"></ref>
* Green zealotry is affecting healthcare outcomes.<ref name="electric">https://archive.is/TZspp</ref>
* Staff were unable to speak out against the practices of the clinic for fear of being labelled bigoted.<ref name="bigot">https://archive.is/WTnRf</ref>
* Staff were unable to speak out against the practices of the clinic for fear of being labelled bigoted.<ref name="bigot">https://archive.is/WTnRf</ref>
* Joked that the clinic was conversion therapy for homosexuals and that "there would be no gay people left".<ref name="conversion">https://archive.is/OzlEP</ref>
* Joked that the clinic was conversion therapy for homosexuals and that "there would be no gay people left".<ref name="conversion">https://archive.is/OzlEP</ref>

Revision as of 20:45, 25 March 2024

Stories

  • Some NHS centres are more than twice as likely to diagnose autism than others.[1]
  • Employees are deployed to Gaza in UK funded hospitals.[2]
  • Nine year old Jewish boy was ordered off hospital bed and made to sit on the floor by nurses wearing pro-Palestine badges.[3]
  • Setup "Greener NHS team" with a combined salary of £3million per year, including 5 6-figure roles.[4]
  • Introduced electric ambulances which requires hours to charge at the cost of £150,000 per unit despite trials revealing major concerns.[4]
  • Rejected healthcare products due to plastics on the basis of environmental grounds, despite improving healthcare outcomes.[4]
  • NHS suppliers must have a carbon reduction plan.[4]
  • Rolled out GP visits via e-bikes initiative.[4]
  • Created the climate-friendly pain relief initiative.[4]
  • Freedom of Information requests submitted in 2022 to 6,000 public bodies including the NHS found they employed around 10,000 diversity and inclusion staff, at a cost of £557 million a year to the taxpayer.[5]
  • Removed the word "women" from documentation to conform to gender neutral language.[6]
  • Hospitals have lost over £180million to "health tourists" over 5 years.[7]
  • Exams could be scrapped for overseas applicants.[8]
  • Spends a £10bn a year on temporary staff.[9]
  • Drug-induced milk from transgender women who were born male is as good for babies as a mother's breast milk, says University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.[10]
  • Skin cancer diagnosis delays caused by lockdowns led to 12,000 years of life lost.[11]
  • York Hospital apologised after a sign was placed in its library describing South Asian snacks as "very smelly".[12]
  • Youth gender services will provide masculinising and feminising hormones to children from "around their 16th birthday".[13]

Competence

  • The Care Quality Commission found examples of staff falsifying records and assaulting patients at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.[14]
  • 3rd worst for healthcare outcomes in the developed World.[15][16]
  • 2nd worst for avoidable mortality in the developed World.[15][16]
  • 2nd worst for out-of-hours access to care in the developed World.[15][16]
  • 2nd worst for doctors spending enough time with patients in the developed World.[15][16]
  • Worst for stroke mortality in the developed World.[15][16]
  • More than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies incinerated in two years and disposed with other hospital rubbish.[17]
  • More than 4million avoidable deaths since 2001.[18]
  • Jessica's cancer was missed 20 times by GPs. A single private consultation gave the correct diagnosis.[19]
  • Autism diagnosis wait times hit 300 days.[20]
  • GP surgeries could be earning £1b per year from patients who don't exist.[21]
  • Rugby player waited more than 5hours in agony for ambulance and then developed sepsis in Bristol hospital.[22]
  • Hospital staff in William Harvey Hospital deliberately slowed down operations to limit the number of patients they had to see.[23]
  • More than 30 members of staff from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have been suspended amid an ongoing investigation after maltreatment of patients and falsification of mental health observations.[24]
  • Whistleblowers accuse Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust of poor culture that led to deaths of babies that could have been avoided.[25]
  • Hundreds queue in three hour long queue in the cold for a new NHS dental practice.[26]
  • Nurses being investigated for "industrial-scale" qualifications fraud after 700 nurses were found to have use proxies to pass tests in Nigeria enabling them to work in the UK.[27]

Tavistock Transgender Clinic

  • Green zealotry is affecting healthcare outcomes.[4]
  • Staff were unable to speak out against the practices of the clinic for fear of being labelled bigoted.[28]
  • Joked that the clinic was conversion therapy for homosexuals and that "there would be no gay people left".[29]
  • 80 to 90 percent of referrals to the Tavistock gender clinic were attracted to others of the same sex.[30]
  • More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic.[31]
  • Tavistock patient says she feels like an "experiment gone wrong" after mastectomy made her feel a lot worse.[32]
  • An independent review found it was "not safe".[32]
  • 382 children aged six and under were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by Tavistock.[31]
  • The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals.[31]
  • Tavistock are unable to provide figures on those who have undergone physical interventions.[31]
  • Many former staff from Tavistock facility set up private gender clinic Gender Plus.[33]
  • An independent review warned there was not enough research on the impact of hormones prescribed by Tavistock.[33]
  • Tavistock had a policy of an unquestioning affirmative approach to gender identity.[33]

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