The NHS trusts will be judged by the controversial Stonewall charity on their LGBT ‘inclusion’ in a £ 220,000 taxpayer-funded project.

The Telegraph has learned that around 40 NHS trusts will be ‘assessed’ on diversity after NHS England awarded the contract, titled NHS Rainbow Badges, to five LGBT groups.

Trusts will receive a bronze, silver or gold medal based on their “inclusive cultures” and “trans status monitoring”, with assessors hired with higher starting salaries than nurses and paramedics. paramedics.

A prominent role will be played by Stonewall, despite the removal of many high-level organizations and ministries from its diversity agenda.

The £ 220,000 national NHS program, finalized last month, will see Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation work to ‘build a more systemic approach to LGBT awareness and inclusion’, including ‘monitoring, culture, education and training ”.

Sex offenders and female-only quarters

Physicians who participate are instructed in official guidelines to “engage” via social media or a blog post “on how you will be an effective LGBT + ally”, in order to “earn” a pinned badge of the flag of pride.

But feminists fear the creeping influence of trans pressure groups within the NHS, having spent nearly £ 500,000 on Stonewall’s advice in the past three years.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid pledged last month to be ‘vigilant to waste or wakefulness’ in the NHS after Tory MPs expressed concern about public funds spent on training in the diversity.

This comes as hospitals are due to receive further guidance from the Equality Regulator on preserving single-sex services, after The Telegraph revealed that some trusts said sex offenders who identify as female could be placed in women-only services and that the dissidents were transphobic.

Stonewall says trans patients should be “admitted to wards and use facilities that match their gender” and says it is “totally inappropriate” to suggest that trans patients are at risk just because they are trans.

Controversial politics

The charity said that through the awards, it will “ensure that the trusts implement appropriate training, monitoring, inclusive policies and staff support” for LGBT staff and patients.

He says he will use the experience of his diversity membership program, which has seen a string of high-profile outings from its 850 paying organizations, which prompted Equality Minister Liz Truss to call Whitehall to sever ties.

It comes as more than 500 medical professionals, including 30 NHS managers, have signed a letter to Lord Evans, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, calling for a public inquiry into Stonewall’s influence in the state institutions such as the NHS, police forces and government departments.

The letter from the campaign group Sex Matters argues that the meaning of biological sex is “erased” at “the order of pressure groups claiming to represent the transgender minority”.

Rewards could be expanded

Under the new scheme, two ‘NHS rainbow badge assessors’ and a project manager have been hired, for between £ 28,900 and £ 30,000 per year, more than the starting salary most nurses and paramedics.

It is understood that the awards could expand to allow more NHS organizations to sign up, with health chiefs seeing this as a pilot project led by equality charities Stonewall, LGBT Foundation, Switchboard , Consortium and Glaad.

An NHS spokesperson said: “We know that some people are turned off from seeking care because of their sexuality, so this project is meant to help everyone feel able to seek NHS help.”

A Stonewall spokesperson said: “We are proud to support the NHS Rainbow Badges program to ensure that all lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people have access to accessible and inclusive health services, and are free to ‘be themselves.