Gay rights activists welcome NHS quizzing of patients over sexuality

From 2019, people visiting their GP or hospital may be asked to confirm whether they are straight, gay, bisexual or other

Gay rights campaigners have backed an NHS policy demanding that doctors and nurses start asking all patients from the age of 16 about their sexual orientation.

NHS England has issued a new standard requiring staff to “record sexual orientation at every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists”.

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