Fining hospitals for medical misogyny won't help women, it will hurt them

MedicalXpress | أبر 21, 2026

Hospitals that score poorly on feedback from female patients could soon see their budget cut under a plan unveiled in April by Wes Streeting, the UK's health secretary. Branded "patient power payments," the scheme would tie a slice of hospital income to women's experiences of care, a measure designed to end what Streeting himself has called an "appalling culture of medical misogyny" in England's National Health Service.