No more "Mum" and "Dad" in Scotland?

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O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge…those who dwell upon the earth? (Rev. 6:10).

Why doesn’t the Lord just strike now?

This sucks.
 
Is there the slightest evidence that this is anything more than a recommendation (from an organization external to the NHS) about it considers should be good practice?

Could anybody show that Scotland’s NHS has actually proscribed the use of “mum” and “dad”? An external report recommending is rather different from a policy.

Or is it just the Daily Mail being the Daily Mail?
 
I wondered that too; but if you look it is listed as a directive by the NHS.

Thinking too though; about Scottish kids… there is no way any of this is going to change how they see Mum and Dad…

Family ties are very important there.

It is only the nurses who are being made to conform outwardly; and only that same vociferous few who will demend it.

I suspect that any who conform will do so very much tongue in cheek.

And any tenement family in Glasgow or Aberdeed…

The more noise these gay rights folk make, the less anyone is going to take any heed of them…

Thankfully…
Kaninchen said:
Is there the slightest evidence that this is anything more than a recommendation (from an organization external to the NHS) about it considers should be good practice?

Could anybody show that Scotland’s NHS has actually proscribed the use of “mum” and “dad”? An external report recommending is rather different from a policy.

Or is it just the Daily Mail being the Daily Mail?
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hermitcrab said:
I wondered that too; but if you look it is listed as a directive by the NHS.
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I must be being especially dense because I can’t see anywhere it’s listed as a directive - could you give me the url?
The more noise these gay rights folk make, the less anyone is going to take any heed of them…
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Some of us think the noise is stereo rather than mono - a fuss over nothing is not restricted to one side.
 
My advice is to stay out of Scotland – that kind of lunacy might be catching!
 
The terminology is binding; the NHS issed/financed and endorses this policy.

Not sure re your image in your last sentence…
Kaninchen said:
I must be being especially dense because I can’t see anywhere it’s listed as a directive - could you give me the url?

Some of us think the noise is stereo rather than mono - a fuss over nothing is not restricted to one side.
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I can’t find the other threads concerning the UK’s new anti-discrimination laws, but I’ve been reading - that is I started to read some of it today - the actual document by the House of Lords and whomever (dative right?) else. I thought maybe I’d post post the PDF document here if I could.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/58/58.pdf

Above is the link.

Catholig
 
Kaninchen said:
No sign of mum and dad there either.
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What does that mean? Can you elaborate, because I was just posting a link to the document so that anyone that wants to can read it. This has very little, in fact, to do with the NHS, but instead the government’s forcing of catholic businesses to serve everyone, and not to teach that homosexuality is objectively disordered.

Catholig
 
Catholig said:
What does that mean? Can you elaborate, because I was just posting a link to the document so that anyone that wants to can read it. This has very little, in fact, to do with the NHS, but instead the government’s forcing of catholic businesses to serve everyone, and not to teach that homosexuality is objectively disordered.

Catholig
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It’s supposedly the theme of the thread - has the NHS in Scotland instructed staff not to use the terms ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ or not? Or is it just a bit of Daily Mail hysterics?
 
Kaninchen said:
[Another authoritative source - the Sun!]

No it doesn’t, it’s reporting the external report which the NHS ‘will consider’. No evidence of anything other than there was a report and it would be considered.
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Okay Kaninchen (bunny ;-)),

I’m not arguing one way or the other. Just posted a link on the NHS mum/dad bit, because you seemed down on my posting a slightly off-topic link to the document on the new anti-discrimination laws that are being/will be put into effect.

Catholig
 
Kaninchen said:
[Another authoritative source - the Sun!]
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Well, we are all waiting for the Daily Mirror to finish its exhaustive investigation.
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Kaninchen:
No it doesn’t, it’s reporting the external report which the NHS ‘will consider’. No evidence of anything other than there was a report and it would be considered.
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Yes, the report seems just to be recommendations.
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Kaninchen:
Some of us think the noise is stereo rather than mono - a fuss over nothing is not restricted to one side.
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Heh, first it starts in Scotland, then the next thing we know its in Utah and the Yukon. We need to stop the threat, before its a threat!
 
Speaking in my capacity as a nurse who works for the NHS in Scotland will it spoils anyones day if I point out that neither myself not any of my professional colleagues in the Lothian Universities Hospital Division have received any such directive, mandate or instruction?

I notice that the Department of Health website lists the Stonewall document under the heading “Good practice examples and resources” at dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/EqualityAndHumanRights/EqualityAndHumanRightsArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4117240&chk=3Kyi0T
but I only know that because of this site no actual nurses have ever mentioned it to me.

It is a part of our professional obligation to treat all sick people equally well regardless of their personal background or history. al Qaeda members, nuns, transsexuals and US marines all qualify to be treated well simply because of their inherent value as human persons.
 
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