In Fletcher and others v Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust and another, the EAT held that the withdrawal of a bursary from trainee midwives during absence for pregnancy and childbirth (when they were unable to claim maternity pay or maternity allowance) was unlawful sex discrimination. Overturning an earlier tribunal decision, the EAT held that the bursary was a "facility for training" within the meaning of section 14 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the NHS Trust had discriminated against the trainee midwives by treating them less favourably during maternity absence than it treated trainee midwives who were absent by reason of ill-health.