NHS whistleblowers have warned that institutional wokeness is negatively impacting the health service as radiographers have been forced to ask middle aged men if they are pregnant.
Roughly 20 NHS trusts around the country currently have a policy where all patients aged 12-55, regardless of gender, are questioned as to whether they are expecting.
One trust has increased this age range, which now subjects 60-year-old men to the quizzing.
The measure is causing a rift among radiographers in the health service who are forced to ask the question to male patients.
NHS whistleblowers have warned that institutional wokeness is negatively impacting the health service
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Speaking anonymously to The Telegraph, one radiographer said: “It’s mortifying to repeatedly ask middle-aged men – who at that moment have presented for life-saving treatment and are hooked up to monitors and multiple drips – what their sex is.
"Or worse, if they could be pregnant.”
In addition to the questioning, it was revealed just weeks ago that men were being made to fill out pregnancy status forms before scans were carried out.
The NHS has introduced a host of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures in the past few years.
All patients aged 12-55, regardless of gender, are questioned as to whether they are pregnant
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Senior staff in the health service have previously expressed concern over speaking out against the measures.
A presentation for junior clinical psychologists on a doctorate-level course contained slides which said the NHS “reproduce(s) whiteness, and uphold(s) notions of racial hierarchies, and bolsters institutional racism”.
Another slide complained that “whiteness is a ‘protected secrecy’ [that’s been] legalised and justified by the State.”
One psychologist recalled to The Telegraph: “Anyone putting their hand up to say there are limitations to this ‘whiteness’ training would be looked at as, ‘Why have you white men got a problem with talking about white men having power?’,”
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The NHS has introduced a host of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures in the past few years
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The NHS worker added: "I worry that we’re not training people to really deal with mental-health difficulties.
"We’re training people to just see the simplistic, reductive kind of activist angle on everything.
"A one-size-fits-all way of looking at things. And we’re missing so much.
“We were on a doctorate-level course – a very responsible position being trained to walk into the field when we were finished – and we never had a conversation about men’s mental health.
“We had a day on feminism, on intersectional feminism, but we never covered men.
"We’re going off into the NHS not thinking about why these problems are happening for men.”
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has offered "anti-racism" training for over 10,000 members of staff, which addresses white privilege and takes over four hours to complete.
A spokesman for the trust said: “The course content is informed by lived experience, and uses recognised terms within this context, including white privilege.”
An NHS spokesman said: “While NHS trusts are legally required to eliminate unlawful discrimination, training for this must be evidenced-based and supportive of all staff.
“The NHS is fully committed to using every penny of taxpayer money wisely with services set to find £900m of corporate back-office savings by the end of 2025 – and this includes reducing the number of equality and diversity roles in the health service with money reinvested into front-line care for patients.”
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