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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ella Pickover

Health strategy bids to stop women being ‘ignored, gaslit and humiliated’ in NHS

NHS performance data ‘shows that the NHS fails women badly’ (Alamy/PA) -

The NHS has an “appalling culture of medical misogyny”, the Health Secretary has said as he set out a range of measures to stop women from being “ignored, gaslit, humiliated and disrespected”.

Wes Streeting said the NHS has a “problem with basic, everyday sexism” as he launched a renewed Women’s Health Strategy.

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