Equality watchdog says health service ‘now has clarity’ as managers draw up new policy for hospitals and surgeriesNHS bosses are scrambling to overhaul guidelines for single-sex spaces in thousands of hospitals and GP surgeries after the equality watchdog warned they would be pursued if they fail to do so.The British Transport Police became the first to change policies on Thursday amid the fallout from the supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, piling pressure on the health service and other organisations to revamp their guidance. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/nhs-guidance-single-sex-spaces-hospitals-supreme-court-ruling
Author : Andrew Gregory, Severin Carrell, Rajeev Syal and Peter Walker
Publish date : 2025-04-17 18:15:00
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