audio by title 'stephen whittle at lgbtsym'

The North West Regional Assembly organised an LGBT Health Symposium in Manchester on 29th March, 2007 entitled “Promoting Health for the Region’s Wealth: Meeting the Health Needs of the LGBT Community”. The event was organised and funded by the North West Equality and Diversity Group - a body set up by the regional assembly to help promote the region’s goal to become a totally inclusive and equal community - and was part of a series of symposia taking place around the region to discuss inclusivity issues related to ALL ’strands’ or communities of need within our society. The audience of more than fifty health and social care managers and diversity leads included representatives from fifteen of the region’s Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) - the public bodies responsible for every aspect of first line health care in Britain.

Stephen Whittle began by outlining the legislative and case law background that health, social care and other public bodies need to comply with, before moving on to focus on the findings of his recently published research on trans people’s experiences and some of the example cases that revealed.