Letter from Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care

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Dear Scottish Government,

Please provide copies of correspondence sent by the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care to NHS boards asking them to clarify what processes and guidance they used when assigning transgender patients to inpatient wards (as referred to in an article in The Sunday Times on 13 November 2022).

Please also provide copies of any responses received by the Scottish Government from NHS boards.

Yours faithfully,

L Mackenzie

Scottish Government

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Mental Wellbeing and Social Care

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Please find attached a response to your correspondence.
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Dear Scottish Government,

Your response indicates that you would send me a number of attachments but there are none.

Please could you provide them.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

L Mackenzie

Scottish Government

Good morning,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Your enquiry has been passed to the relevant business area, who will respond as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Katherine

Central Enquiry Unit
Scottish Government
Tel: 0300 244 4000

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Good morning,

Please accept my apologies for the attachments being missing from your response. There was a technical error on our end.

I've included them all in this email.

Kind regards,

Nadia Abu-Hussain

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