This article doesn’t really pin point why NHS staff don’t have access to period products. Are they banned from purchasing them in their free time and bringing them to work with them?
‘Female staff can feel knowing that they could be about to bleed through their scrubs but have no access to pads or tampons’
How is this different to me standing in the middle of a shift in my crappy retail job, where I can’t excuse myself to the toilet when I’m about to start my period, because there’s no one to cover the till for a second? Is it any easier for me because I don’t work for the NHS? No.
‘I have had colleagues who have to cut up patient’s incontinence pads to place in their own underwear until they can access period products.’ …Now imagine you work in a clothing store. Or a bar. Or a busy warehouse. No incontinence pads there. Sometimes they didn’t even have toilet paper in the staff toilets
In fact, the article isn’t even written well enough to establish WHY they don’t have access. Are they not allowed to bring their own possessions onto the wards? Or are they not able to leave their duties to use the toilets? But then again it says they have access to the toilets! So why can’t they access pads/ tampons in those toilets? Very weirdly written. I’m not saying the issue isn’t real for them, I just can’t imagine why they’re not ‘accessing’ their period products in the staff toilets. At my job I just take them out my locked and take them to the bathroom with me. Or are they just wanting them provided for free? And why?
Yes it’s not a luxury it’s a basic necessity, but to focus the article on NHS staff and not every employed woman is weird. Should it just be a basic necessity for NHS staff and no one else?
And more importantly why exactly can they not access their period products? They’ve said they have access to the toilets; why not bring your own period products with you like literally every other woman has to?
Ok, now I ask you what’s stopping them from bringing in their own? Or does employers have to provide such products? Perhaps next the Employer has to provide someone to feed and wipe them?
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This article doesn’t really pin point why NHS staff don’t have access to period products. Are they banned from purchasing them in their free time and bringing them to work with them?
‘Female staff can feel knowing that they could be about to bleed through their scrubs but have no access to pads or tampons’
How is this different to me standing in the middle of a shift in my crappy retail job, where I can’t excuse myself to the toilet when I’m about to start my period, because there’s no one to cover the till for a second? Is it any easier for me because I don’t work for the NHS? No.
‘I have had colleagues who have to cut up patient’s incontinence pads to place in their own underwear until they can access period products.’ …Now imagine you work in a clothing store. Or a bar. Or a busy warehouse. No incontinence pads there. Sometimes they didn’t even have toilet paper in the staff toilets
In fact, the article isn’t even written well enough to establish WHY they don’t have access. Are they not allowed to bring their own possessions onto the wards? Or are they not able to leave their duties to use the toilets? But then again it says they have access to the toilets! So why can’t they access pads/ tampons in those toilets? Very weirdly written. I’m not saying the issue isn’t real for them, I just can’t imagine why they’re not ‘accessing’ their period products in the staff toilets. At my job I just take them out my locked and take them to the bathroom with me. Or are they just wanting them provided for free? And why?
Yes it’s not a luxury it’s a basic necessity, but to focus the article on NHS staff and not every employed woman is weird. Should it just be a basic necessity for NHS staff and no one else?
And more importantly why exactly can they not access their period products? They’ve said they have access to the toilets; why not bring your own period products with you like literally every other woman has to?
Ok, now I ask you what’s stopping them from bringing in their own? Or does employers have to provide such products? Perhaps next the Employer has to provide someone to feed and wipe them?