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"The LGBTQ diversity programme run by England’s National Health Service (NHS)
is being shut down,
VICE News can reveal.
The NHS Rainbow Badge scheme employs a team of people to assess LGBTQ inclusion
policies across the health service, as well as providing hundreds of thousands
of healthcare staff with Pride flag pin badges to wear at work.
Civil servants have told
VICE News that UK government officials within the
Department of Health and Social Care encouraged NHS bosses to pull the funding
of the diversity scheme, as part of a wider pushback against LGBTQ
inclusion—and especially trans inclusion programmes.
After approving more funding for the project several months ago, whistleblowers
tell
VICE News that NHS England suddenly “u-turned and ghosted” those
involved. Services have now been “wound down,” and some staff are struggling to
work while NHS England refuses to communicate with them about what has
changed."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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