Category: NHS
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NHS Wales to review “paused” surgeries by Christmas
Around sixty people whose gender surgeries were cancelled by NHS Wales are expected to have an investigation into the necessity of those surgeries completed by the end of December. NHS Wales is currently undertaking an “urgent independent clinical review” of all patients on the Welsh Gender Service surgery waiting lists due to, among other things,…
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Former Gender Clinician: “It’s pseudo-medicine”
Shortly after publishing the piece which flagged the Welsh Gender Service as a potential Service of Concern (now a fully fledged Actual Concern) I received an email from a former gender clinician I had briefly met in London earlier this year. Let’s call her Anna. Anna worked at an adult gender clinic between 2016 and…
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WGS surgery referral free-for-all
On Tuesday this week, 29 year old Sion Jewell told the BBC about the cancellation of her double mastectomy. “It was just the most heartbreaking feeling in the world” said Jewell, “to know I can’t be in the body I’ve always been in my head… the dysphoria is a pain like nothing… nothing imaginable can…
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Bash Back Threaten NHS Staff
On Friday, NHS Wales confirmed they had cancelled all scheduled surgeries and paused all surgery referrals made by the Welsh Gender Service, pending an investigation. I speculated this might be about to happen in a blog post I published earlier the same day. Within a few hours that speculation had been confirmed to me and…
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Welsh Gender Surgeries Could Be Stopped
On Monday, NHS Wales joint commissioning body’s Quality, Safety and Outcomes committee met to discuss the Welsh Gender Service. Last week this website revealed that WGS had been designated a “potential Service of Concern” due to “issues identified through ongoing review and assurance processes”. These included “higher rates of surgical referral than seen in comparable…
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Welsh gender clinic “potential Service of Concern”
… but the surgery referrals won’t stop. The Welsh Gender Service (WGS) has been described as a “potential Service of Concern” in an internal NHS document published online. A Service of Concern is a formal NHS designation, meaning there has been “significant singular service failures, or cumulative or systemic concerns regarding a service or setting”.…
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Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) has proposed requiring its therapists to “actively promote inclusion” during therapy sessions and “ensure that any discriminatory attitudes and behaviours are challenged” when expressed by patients. The BABCP regulates psychotherapists and BABCP accreditation is considered important for any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) working in the NHS.…
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Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails
The attempt to stop the Pathways puberty blocker trial at the High Court has failed. After a two day permissions hearing earlier this week, Mr Justice Chamberlain refused to allow the application to go to full review on the basis that “none of the grounds of challenge has a realistic prospect of success”. The Bayswater…
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Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow
A decision on whether a judicial review into the government’s Pathways puberty blocker trial can go ahead will be handed down at the High Court in London tomorrow at 2pm. The judicial review applicants are seeking permission to have the trial stopped, claiming the decisions which led to its approval were made unlawfully and the…
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NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidance
Fighting Fife With FOI The Information Commissioner in Scotland, David Hamilton, has told NHS Fife to make its 2024 Trans Policy available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Fife has thus far refused to release the document, citing a number of exemptions, all of which have been rejected by the Commissioner.…
