Ruling delivered in Sandie Peggie employment tribunal case
Where did the tribunal find in Sandie Peggie's favour?published at 16:06 GMT16:06 GMT
As we've been reporting, the tribunal partially found in Sandie Peggie's favour.It ruled that the health board should have paused Dr Beth Upton's permission to use the women's changing rooms after Sandie Peggie complained in autumn 2023, saying it would have been a temporary decision "pending a more long-term solution being found".The verdict notes this would have been a "difficult balancing exercise" but that NHS Fife did not meet it.It also found NHS Fife took too long to investigate the claims against the nurse, after initially suspending her at the start of January 2024. The verdict ruled references to concerns over patient care as being a reason for Ms Peggie's suspension - which the nurse learned about on 28 March - were "not fundamentally ones of patient care". The ruling states that there
was no direct evidence to establish patient care was adversely
affected by Ms Peggie's gender-critical beliefs, and notes two reported issues - which included claims the nurse left a patient in a cubicle due to Dr Upton's presence - were not raised contemporaneously.It states it was "not clear why there was a formal allegation as to patient care, rather than
as one of not interacting with a trans woman". The last issue it finds in favour of Ms Peggie is that she was told by NHS Fife not to discuss the case, only to then be told two weeks later this only applied to the actual investigation itself, which was ongoing at that point.The tribunal dismissed the other allegations against the health board and all claims against Dr Upton.
