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       Oh just FUCK OFF and do the bloody job you are supposed to do, and do it PROPERLY! Which is what they are not doing and what IS causing harm now 🤬 https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/general/nhs-trust-to-stop-calling-people-patients/ar-AA2cbE17?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6aa8fbc3b44449ec82b482ae8c53b71a&ei=18People should not be referred to as patients in case they find it “inappropriate”, “unhelpful” or “intimidating”, an NHS language guide has recommended. Instead, clinicians should refer to a patient as an “expert by experience”, “customer” or “consumer”.The guide, issued by Sussex Health and Care, also advises clinicians against using standard medical language such as “assessment” and “discharge” to avoid making patients “feel alienated” or potentially causing them “harm”. Sussex Health and Care, which partners with NHS Sussex as well as seven NHS trusts and councils for East and West Sussex and Brighton, spent two years compiling the tax-funded guide. The “guide to language for mental health”, published last year, consulted groups of patients – referred to in the report as “experts by experience” – and people working in health and care services across Sussex. In the guide, an anonymous staff representative said it was “about acknowledging diversity and ensuring no one feels alienated or misunderstood because of how they are described or addressed”. Another said the guide was designed to help clinicians use “more relatable language [that] would make services feel more accessible and less intimidating”.“Patients want doctors focused on treatment, not agonising over whether words like ‘assessment’, ‘discharge’ or ‘patient’ might cause offence.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAQiIG1zhTezCX2IKW by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
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       @Maud_Gonner It's a sinister move re language etc for sure.