NHS patients labelled ‘difficult women’ for raising concerns about care, commissioner says
NHS patients who raise concerns about care are often passed off as “difficult women,” the patient safety commissioner has said.
Henrietta Hughes warned they are too often “gaslit, dismissed, and fobbed off.”
“It shows a very dismissive and very old fashioned, patronising attitude to patients who have identified problems and need to have their voices heard,” the former medical director at NHS England and national guardian for the NHS said.
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