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NHS patients to be asked about sexuality
Under new NHS guidelines, health professionals in England are to be told to ask patients aged 16 or over about their sexual orientation.
NHS England said that no-one would be forced to answer but recording the data would ensure that ‘no patient is discriminated against’.
It recommends health professionals, such as GPs and nurses, ask about a person’s sexual orientation at ‘every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists’.
The Family Doctor Association, however, said it was ‘potentially intrusive and offensive’ for GPs to monitor people’s sexuality.
Former Conservative education secretary Nicky Morgan said: “Could it be appropriate in some circumstances about some conditions or problems that people come to see their doctors about?
"But clearly (for) the majority you wonder why on earth they need to know."
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