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Death of the gender-neutral health advice? Woke NHS pages for ovarian cancer and menopause begin using ‘women’ again following backlash

Gender-neutral NHS advice is finally being binned, it emerged today.

Mentions of women were last year quietly scrubbed from health pages on cervical and ovarian cancers in order to be more ‘inclusive’.

The woke push also saw gendered terms axed from the page on menopause, even though the biological phenomenon only occurs in women. 

But following a massive outcry and demands for a U-turn, gender-specific language has been reintroduced to the same three pages.

It forms part of the launch of a new NHS Women’s Health online hub, designed to ‘support women’s health at every stage of their lives’.

Following a massive outcry and demands for a U-turn, gender-specific language has been reintroduced to the three pages NHS female health pages, though two others remain gender-neutral

Following a massive outcry and demands for a U-turn, gender-specific language has been reintroduced to the three pages NHS female health pages, though two others remain gender-neutral

However, not all the pages caught up in the inclusivity overhaul have had yet to be restored.

For example, the NHS’ official pages for womb and vaginal cancer, which had their mentions of ‘women’ deleted, remain unchanged in the latest update.

MailOnline approached The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and NHS Digital for comment on why some have changed and not others. 

Experts argue the de-sexing of the NHS language pages is dangerous because it can overcomplicate vital health messaging for women.

An earlier version of the NHS menopause page described it as being ‘when a woman stops having periods and is no longer able to get pregnant naturally’.

But this was changed in May last year to: ‘Menopause is when your periods stop due to lower hormone levels.’

However, in the new update the term ‘women’ features again. The advice now states that the menopause ‘usually affects women between the ages of 45 and 55’.

A line saying ‘it affects anyone who has periods’ — referring to biological women

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Put word WOMAN back into health advice, NHS told

Put word WOMAN back into health advice, NHS told: Doctors and nurses among 1,400-strong petition demanding U-turn on woke, gender-inclusive language

  • Gender-specific terms have been quietly scrubbed on official NHS advice sites
  • Pages on ovarian, womb and cervical cancer were affected by the changes
  • A 1,400-strong group of campaigners have demanded immediate action

By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline and Emily Craig Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline

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NHS bosses were today urged to start using ‘women’ and ‘woman’ again on health pages online.

Gender-specific terms have been quietly scrubbed on official advice sites under a woke inclusivity drive. 

Pages on ovarian, womb and cervical cancer as well as the menopause, which can only biological women can suffer, were affected by the changes.

Ministers, including ex-Health Secretary Sajid Javid, had pledged to crackdown on the practice — but action has yet to be taken.

Here are some examples of the woke language changes that have engulfed NHS communications. Some of these examples have been taken from national NHS communications while others are used by individual hospitals

Here are some examples of the woke language changes that have engulfed NHS communications. Some of these examples have been taken from national NHS communications while others are used by individual hospitals 

NHS ovarian cancer page as of December 2021, featuring two mentions of women

The new page, updated in January omits the word women

The old version of the NHS ovarian cancer page as of December 30 2021 (left) mentions women specifically twice, whereas the new version (right) omits them 

The NHS has quietly omitted the terms 'women' and 'woman' from its webpage on menopause. Pictured here is the older version of the menopause overview page (May 16) which mentioned women six times

The NHS has quietly omitted the terms ‘women’ and ‘woman’ from its webpage on menopause. Pictured here is the older version of the menopause overview page (May 16) which mentioned women six times 

But a newer version omits women from the overview entirely. Experts have warned women could be disadvantaged by de-gendered medical advice confusing health messaging

But a newer version omits women from the overview entirely. Experts have warned women could be disadvantaged by de-gendered medical advice confusing health messaging

Now a 1,400-strong group of campaigners have demanded immediate action, in an open letter started by the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG).

Doctors, nurses and healthcare practitioners are among

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Department of Health wasted £15bn on unused Covid supplies, watchdog finds | NHS

The Department of Health has wasted a total of £15bn on unused personal protective equipment, Covid tests and vaccines, prompting heavy criticism from the Whitehall spending watchdog.

The department spent £8.9bn during 2020-21 and another £6bn last year on such supplies, including masks and gowns for NHS staff that have proved unuseable and are now being burned.

The sums were revealed in the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) annual accounts and report for 2021-22, published on Thursday, and highlighted in a highly critical assessment issued by the National Audit Office (NAO).

Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the Commons’ public accounts committee, which oversees the NAO, said the accounts showed “extraordinary waste” by the DHSC. The money wasted was “another reminder to Whitehall about the vital importance of proper controls in public procurement, including during a crisis”.

The NAO said that the £6bn wasted in 2021/22 included a £3.5bn writedown on PPE, vaccines and medication to treat Covid which the DHSC had committed to buy but no longer plans to use.

The other £2.5bn was a writedown in the value of goods on which the DHSC originally spent £11.2bn.

Those supplies included £1.5bn of PPE, £5.8bn of Covid-detecting lateral flow tests and PCR tests procured by the test-and-trace programme, £2.7bn worth of vaccines to fight the virus and £1.2bn of various drugs that hospitals used to treat patients.

The DHSC’s report also disclosed that it expects to spend £319m storing and disposing of PPE which is no longer needed and is of such poor quality that it is no use to frontline staff anyway.

In March last year it was still spending £24m a month storing the infection-preventing equipment, the NAO said.

Labour seized on the DHSC’s admissions and highlighted that Rishi Sunak was the chancellor of the

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