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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rob Freeman

NHS faces ‘MeToo moment’ as female surgeons reveal shocking scale of sexual assaults in hospitals

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Female surgeons report being sexually assaulted, harassed and in some instances raped by colleagues, according to a shocking new survey described as a ‘MeToo’ moment for surgery.

Almost one in three female surgeons working in the NHS have been sexually assaulted in the last five years, while eleven instances of rape were reported by surgeons who took part in the study, published in the British Journal of Surgery.

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