From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

England's patient safety commissioner says NHS patients raising concerns are dismissed as difficult women'

• NHS patients raising safety concerns too often fobbed off', says commissioner

England's patient safety commissioner, Henrietta Hughes, has warned that NHS patients raising concerns are too often gaslighted", fobbed off" or dismissed as difficult women".

It shows a very dismissive and very old fashioned, patronising attitude to patients who have identified problems and need to have their voices heard," she said.