This hearing followed an incident in May 2024 where Melle was racially abused by a transgender patient after she addressed them as “Mr”. <\/p>\n
The trust issued her with a written warning, and separately warned the patient that racist and threatening behaviour would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n
An Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS spokesperson said they were pleased a member of staff who was previously suspended on full pay was being reinstated to clinical duties.<\/p>\n
“Racial abuse of our staff will never be tolerated and we are sorry that she had this experience.”<\/p>\n
Melle said she felt “deeply relieved and grateful” at the decision, following an “incredibly long and painful journey”.<\/p>\n
Melle is taking the trust to an employment tribunal in April claiming harassment, direct discrimination and indirect discrimination linked to her gender\u2011critical and evangelical Christian beliefs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This hearing followed an incident in May 2024 where Melle was racially abused by a transgender patient after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}