{"id":427185,"date":"2026-02-15T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:07:07","slug":"trans-doctor-involved-in-sandie-peggie-tribunal-leaves-nhs-fife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427185\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans doctor involved in Sandie Peggie tribunal leaves NHS Fife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In December, nurse Sandie Peggie won a claim for harassment in her tribunal against the health board, but other allegations of discrimination were dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The nurse had objected to sharing a changing room with Dr Upton and was placed on special leave following a disagreement between the two at Victoria Hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/kirkcaldy-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kirkcaldy<\/a> on Christmas Eve 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/opinion\/25682177.dr-beth-upton-real-winner-sandie-peggie-tribunal-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"WlydOe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Dr Beth Upton is the real winner in the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25318408.dr-beth-upton-doctor-centre-nhs-tribunal-row\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"WlydOe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Who is Dr Beth Upton, the trans doctor at the centre of Sandie Peggie row?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25680842.judgment-delivered-sandie-peggie-employment-tribunal\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"WlydOe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sandie Peggie wins employment tribunal against NHS Fife &#8211; but not Dr Upton<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Peggie had lodged a claim against NHS Fife and Dr Upton, citing the Equality Act 2010, including sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination, and victimisation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The claims against Dr Upton were rejected by the employment tribunal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Scottish Sun On Sunday reported Dr Upton, 30, has left NHS Fife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the health board said: \u201cNHS Fife can confirm that Dr Beth Upton left the organisation at the end of 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAs this is a personal employment matter, we will be making no further comment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Peggie has said she will continue her legal fight and will not be giving up \u201cany time soon\u201d after her partial win in the employment tribunal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her supporters have also hit out at the fact the tribunal issued corrections to its original 312-page ruling in Ms Peggie\u2019s case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Author JK Rowling said the correction was \u201cabsolutely scandalous behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December, nurse Sandie Peggie won a claim for harassment in her tribunal against the health board, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-427185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427185","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=427185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}