Men are being asked whether they are pregnant before being given radiotherapy.
Cancer patients and those having X-rays and MRI scans are being asked the question, even if they are not women because the word ‘female’ has been replaced by ‘individuals’ for medical procedures.
In Liverpool, the Walton Centre NHS Trust now asks ‘all patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender’ whether they could be having a baby.
Patients and their families have also complained of ‘unnecessary confusion and agitation’ for vulnerable patients.
The Society of Radiographers last November advised medics it was ‘important to check with all patients for any possibility of pregnancy’.
A spokesman for the Walton trust told the Daily Telegraph that its policy ‘adheres to national legislation, as certain amounts of radiation can be harmful to foetuses in utero’.
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