Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_9405

Internal Reference Number: FOI_9405

Date Request Received: 12/05/2026 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 12/05/2026 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Complaints by Women Inpatients Regarding Trans Women Inpatients (2025)

Request Category: Companies

 
Question Number 1:
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 to SALISBURY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST.

REQUEST

In the calendar year 1 January – 31 December 2025, how many women inpatients complained that a trans woman inpatient — that is, a person with the protected characteristic of Gender Reassignment under the Equality Act 2010 (section 7), or a person holding a Gender Recognition Certificate under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 — was being cared for in the same ward as the complainant?

NOTES ON SCOPE

If no such complaints were recorded during the specified period, please confirm this explicitly. If your authority does not record complaints in a way that captures this information, please describe your recording system and provide the closest available equivalent data, noting any limitations.

 
Answer To Question 1:
PALS - we have not received any complaints regarding this.
RISK - There are no incidents reported around this issue.
 
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