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Sarah Ward

NHS trust accused of failing to disclose details in transgender doctor tribunal

Dr Beth Upton (centre) arrives at an employment tribunal in Dundee (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Wire)

An NHS trust was “extraordinarily negligent” for failing to disclose documents relating to an alleged “aborted” investigation into a nurse who objected to a transgender doctor using female changing rooms, an employment tribunal has heard.

Nurse Sandie Peggie, who has worked at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, for 30 years, took the Fife health board and Dr Beth Upton to tribunal after being suspended following an incident on Christmas Eve 2023.

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