NHS trust ‘gives competing companies higher marks for adopting Stonewall ideology’
by Ewan Somerville, Telegraph:
Leaked documents from Lewisham and Greenwich Trust reveal companies vying to win contracts faced questions related to the Charity’s policies.
A major NHS trust is awarding companies vying for healthcare contracts higher marks if they adopt Stonewall’s transgender ideology, a whistleblower has claimed.
Official tender documents from Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have been leaked to The Telegraph detailing the questions that firms are asked when applying to deliver stoma services at the London trust’s hospitals.
A stoma is the opening made in the stomach during a colostomy or ileostomy operation, a vital procedure for some cancer patients.
The taxpayer contract, understood to run into millions of pounds and from the internal NHS tender website, marks bidders on a scale of zero to four on their responses to 35 questions.
Five of these are titled “Stonewall UK Workplace Equality Index”, asking about the “diversity and inclusion strategies” supported by the controversial lobby group, which the Department of Health and Social Care cut ties with last year amid a storm of criticism from ministers.
Removing gendered language
A Telegraph investigation found last year that Stonewall urged employers to remove gendered language such as “mother” through the equality index, which audits organisations’ diversity policies and ranks them in a public league table.
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