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To: SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH
PAGAN AND DRUID RECOGNITION IN HOSPITALS AND CARE HOMES DIGNITY IN CARE
We the Druid and Pagan community of Great Britain, been of the oldest belief faiths of this land, petition the Minister above to open debate with our community over the need for our official recognition and representation with in all healthcare and social care eg nursing home, settings, and that staff are trained and made aware of our belief systems and all hospital chapels furnished with pagan information alongside all other religions and belief systems.
We also call for a central register of all Hospital celebrants and chaplaincies and our dignity and practices for celebration of births and deaths recognised and allowed for on hospital wards, with in carehomes, nursing homes and hospices under the equality and diversity act and the 2010 equality act.
We also call for a central register of all Hospital celebrants and chaplaincies and our dignity and practices for celebration of births and deaths recognised and allowed for on hospital wards, with in carehomes, nursing homes and hospices under the equality and diversity act and the 2010 equality act.
Why is this important?
We, as a growing belief section of the community feel we are under represented marginalised and ignored with in these settings and encounter intolerance and ignorance and call for an end to this and our diversity to be celebrated and officially accepted and staff educated to know about our systems of celebration of life and death and care of our sick and our elders
It is gravely important our belief systems are respected and represented with in health and care settings and our community tolerated and allowed our dignity. recently a druid priestess was in a nhs hospital in the north midlands during summer solstice, one of our holy high days of the pagan wheel of the year, and was subjected to verbal intolerance and taunting by some members of staff who encouraged patients to join in, been likened to as a Satanist and weird and also told we sacrifice animals, all of these nothing to do with the pagan and druid beliefs, the priestess was so affronted she raised it with the CQC and hospital chaplaincy and official complaints are in process
It is gravely important our belief systems are respected and represented with in health and care settings and our community tolerated and allowed our dignity. recently a druid priestess was in a nhs hospital in the north midlands during summer solstice, one of our holy high days of the pagan wheel of the year, and was subjected to verbal intolerance and taunting by some members of staff who encouraged patients to join in, been likened to as a Satanist and weird and also told we sacrifice animals, all of these nothing to do with the pagan and druid beliefs, the priestess was so affronted she raised it with the CQC and hospital chaplaincy and official complaints are in process
