What happened on 9th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Friday, the NHS informed Brits that they as patients have no right to know if they are being treated by transgender medics and may be found guilty of discrimination if they refuse their care, NHS bosses have been told.

Patients can only request a same-sex staff member in limited circumstances, such as if they are having an intimate examination or if they are a victim of sexual violence, according to new guidance.

But the report from the NHS Confederation says: ‘A patient cannot request a different member of staff where there is no clear clinical benefit.’

So your views or your excessive shyness is your problem.

Yet, the Daily Mail readers didn't agree with this statement:

"It's everyone's right to be treated by whoever they wish !"

"Do the NHS have decided to create their own laws instead of following the laws of the U.K.? Women STILL have the right to female only spaces, and men deserve that dignity too. This is disgraceful and we ALL need to start paying attention to this." 

"What happens if a man identifies as a female nurse when an intimate examination is required. I have the right to refuse being examined by that person."

"Patients wishes being disregarded. They would rather upset someone suffering from dementia than use common sense"

"NHS has lost its way. No wonder it is becoming an expensive and worryingly dangerous joke. If they put as much effort into the job than meeting the woke needs of staff rather than patients. There's no shame in the NHS."

Also on Friday, new laws compelling failing police forces to improve must be brought in to “keep the public safe” after a series of scandals that have beset UK policing, a watchdog has said.

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary wants Suella Braverman to move quickly to introduce new legislation, warning that reforms demanded by the watchdog seven years ago are only happening now in the wake of “horrific acts” by Met predators Wayne Couzens and David Carrick.

A scathing report said urgent legal changes are needed and that the watchdog’s existing powers have been proved to be insufficient by “too many occasions where forces failed to act”.

"What the police need is better PR and more funding. Most people don't want to work an insanely difficult job with huge responsibilities when they could literally stack shelves at Lidl for much better pay.

As for PR, it's a problem with media as a whole where negative stories are more profitable than positive ones, but it would help if local news documented the police working with local communities when they host workshops or surgeries where they listen to concerns from members of the public."

"It's a bit hard to say better PR when there's been so many stories of officers abusing their power, either physically, or by accessing people's information for unlawful purposes, such as cases where the person looked up a person via their car licence plate because they were interested in them. There is absolutely a funding issue leading to poor outcomes for investigations of crimes, but there is also a very obvious issue of documented abuse of power and access by many officers.

A spate of met stories in particular, but not exclusively, and the reputation as a whole gets damaged not just by the abuse, but also by the lack of accountability and vetting that takes place when hiring or investigating these allegations. I don't think better PR is going to do anything except tell the public, "Hey, look, this person did something good, don't look at that one still in his job after being found to have sexually harassed women!""

"They could use the PR money for training etc, its a waste doing PR when they arent fixing any of the issues that are causing distrust in the first place. People wont think better of them just because of some billboards etc."

On Friday as well, it came to know that thousands of Reddit communities will be inaccessible on Monday in protest at how the site is being run.

Reddit is introducing controversial charges to developers of third-party apps, which are used to browse the social media platform. But this has resulted in a backlash, with moderators of some of the biggest subreddits making their communities private for 48 hours in protest.

Almost 3,500 subreddits will be inaccessible as a result. Reddit, unlike other social media sites, relies heavily on community moderation.

That's quite regrettable. It will be a bit harder to monitor news and your comments next week. And not just next week, I'm afraid.

Many redditors are no less upset about that than about the Reddit recent policy.

 

""reddit isn't profitable, unlike 3rd-party apps. So we worked with them to make this relationship beneficial for ... hahaha, no, we set fire to the API so now no-one's profitable. Win!""

"They want us on their official app so they can force ads in front of us, probably. Does The official app have ads? Never tried it so I don't know. Been using RiF happily for 13 years. Old Reddit when on desktop. Always using adblockers, YouTube vanced, etc. Ads don't exist for me. That might be changing it seems. Google is fighting them, and I'm sure it's part of Reddit's motivation with this change"

 "At least the mods are going to have a quiet few days…"

"Thank you mods. I assume you were waiting to see if the AMA made some meaningful promises to address the issues, and given what a total disaster it was you know it's time to move." - "Yes we kept an eye on it and I think we went in with low expectations, and even we are seriously disappointed with it."

"Nobody expected it to be THAT bad tho. I mean, it was a bigger and faster trainwreck than the EAStarwars thread, which held the record of being the most hated/fastest downvoted post in Reddit history."

"That’s it. The Reddit app is like using a Spectrum Z81, so once Apollo goes I will find other things to do. Maybe the children at Reddit will regret their greed.

Posted via Apollo."