AN NHS trust has developed a new rainbow Pride badge a year after government funding was cut for the previous one.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London launched its Progress Pride badge for LBGT+ history month.
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It uses the classic rainbow flag with additions — including a white line for non-binary and a circle for intersex people.
It comes after Health Secretary Wes Streeting wrote in The Sun on Sunday the NHS “can’t afford to be distracted by ideologues”.
Guy’s trust started the original rainbow badge scheme in 2019 and that later spread nationwide, with the flag plastered on ambulances and pedestrian crossings.
But public funding for it was cut at the start of 2024 under the previous government.
Mr Streeting has told the NHS to stop doing “daft things” and diversity staff must focus on safety and patient health.
Fiona McAnena, from charity Sex Matters, said: “It’s extraordinary that NHS trusts continue with divisive and wasteful displays of flags and pins.
“Successive health secretaries have issued directives to end the nonsense.
“Initiatives linked to promoting trans rights have cost well into the hundreds of thousands of pounds across the NHS in England.
“If trusts won’t listen to direct instructions from the Health Secretary, what will it take to stop the indoctrination and waste?”
Guy’s used £5,000 from its in-house charity for the badge.
