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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nuray Bulbul

NHS care for trans patients: what is being proposed and what are the current guidelines?

Big changes may be coming for transgender patients receiving treatments at NHS hospitals.

The news came after NHS data, as noted by shadow health minister Wes Streeting, showed "the use of mixed-sex wards has exploded under the Tories.Women were forced to spend the night on wards alongside male patients 44,000 times last year, 20 times as many as a decade ago, putting huge numbers of people’s safety at risk."

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