The comments were made during an election hustings debate in which candidates contesting the South Ribble seat at the general election were quizzed over the issue of single-sex spaces in NHS facilities. >>>Click here to watch the full election debate . The nurse – who said she had worked in the health service for 30 years – asked: “Do you think it’s right for a biological male to be on the same ward [and] in the same bay as a woman?” Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
In a later contribution when she pressed the would-be MPs over their “ideological” position on the matter, the nurse added that she did not believe such a situation was “correct”. Liberal Democrat candidate Ange Turner responded: “No, I don’t think it’s right. We have to look at the cause – and it’s probably the.
..underfunding of the NHS, because you can also have women and men in the corridor.
“Our NHS will always deal with the issues that people come in with, but our hospitals don’t have the capacity – or are not modern enough after they’ve been crumbling – to properly accommodate proper areas for women and for men,” Ms. Turner explained. Andy Hunter, standing for Reform UK, said: “I don’t think you should have them [mixed wards] either.
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