{"id":6382,"date":"2023-09-12T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T11:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishhipsociety.com\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T11:11:20","slug":"bhs-response-to-sexual-misconduct-in-surgery-paper-from-wpsms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/bhs-response-to-sexual-misconduct-in-surgery-paper-from-wpsms\/","title":{"rendered":"BHS Response to Sexual Misconduct in Surgery paper from WPSMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of you will be aware that The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery<br>(WPSMS) have, today, published their findings. These have come in the form of a paper<br>\u201cSexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape by colleagues in the surgical workforce, and<br>how women and men are living different realities: observational study using NHS<br>population-derived weights\u201d published in BJS, and a report \u201cBreaking the Silence:<br>Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Healthcare\u201d available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpsms.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wpsms.org.uk\/\">WPSMS webpage<\/a>. This work,<br>which has been highlighted in the national news today, provides harrowing but necessary<br>insights into the behaviours that some of our colleagues experience during their careers.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British Hip Society are dedicated to improving the culture of surgery. We condemn, in<br>the strongest terms, sexual misconduct in any form. We are proud to support the work of<br>WPSMS and would like to thank them for this courageous and comprehensive investigation<br>into such an important subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>If anyone is upset or affected by the issues raised in this report, a number of useful<br>resources can be found on the WPSMS webpage www.wpsms.org.uk. If you would like to<br>talk to us about how we are tackling this at an organisational level, or you have suggestions<br>for initiatives, please contact our culture and diversity Chair, Joanna Maggs on<br>cd.com@britishhipsociety.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will be aware that The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery(WPSMS) have, today, published their findings. These have come in the form of a paper\u201cSexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape by colleagues in the surgical workforce, andhow women and men are living different realities: observational study using NHSpopulation-derived weights\u201d published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epic-kilby.51-89-237-181.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}