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FOI0051 2019/20 Fat Shaming Complaints

Freedom of Information Request: 0051 2019/20

Please do this by searching for complaints containing any of the words “weight”, “fat”, “obese”, “overweight” and “bariatric” and filtering these to find those that refer to fat-shaming comments made by a member of staff. 

Can you select the first five such complaints from 2018 and provide me with the following details: 

  1. What type of staff member was the complaint levelled against? E.g. healthcare assistant, junior doctor, consultant, cleaner, kitchen staff 
  2. Please quote the words allegedly used by the hospital staff or summarise the offending action 
  3. Please tell me what, if any, action was taken by your trust in response to these five sample complaints from the beginning of 2018

There were no complaints made in 2018 in relation to ‘fat-shaming’ comments.

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