NHS Bosses - Stop Erasing Women!
NHS is desexing health communications- See 2022 and 2020 snapshots on ovarian cancer. Desexing has removed contextual information on the menopause and frequency of occurance. Those most impacted are those with poor health literacy. pic.twitter.com/StJvSkKGtj
— Karleen Gribble (@DrKarleenG) May 18, 2022
The lobbying group Stonewall managed to persuade SNP ministers to drop the word 'woman' from the Scottish Government's maternity policy.
But here's another example of how the NHS continues to change and 'desex' language by stealth - rather than by having an informed public debate.
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