Category: Safeguarding
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Did NHS Chief Medical Officer suppress puberty blocker information?
“Keep this audit to ourselves for the time being” The former Chief Medical Officer of NHS Sussex asked a colleague who had prepared a report on the number of children being prescribed puberty blockers by local doctors to “keep this audit to ourselves for the time being”. On 7 May 2021 Dr Elizabeth Gill was…
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NHS exec skewers own legal case
Adam Doyle gives evidence in Redvers v NHS Sussex An NHS exec accepted in court today that a key element of his defence against a gender critical doctor’s discrimination claim was “absurd”. He also accepted he was aware of concerns that a transgender GP, Dr Sam Hall, was prescribing hormones to children in contravention of…
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NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020
Whistleblower told NHS Sussex and NHS England of problems with Dr Sam Hall’s methods and was accused of transphobia. An NHS Doctor raised the alarm about the activities of Dr Sam Hall in 2020, a full five years before NHS Sussex started an investigation into Brighton’s WellBN clinic – which concluded it had it caused…
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Peggie v RCN: “I want this to be a wake-up call”
This is an expanded and re-edited version of the interview which appeared in the Sunday Times on 20 September: Although she seems a little weary when we speak, there’s a certain steel about Sandie Peggie. “I do feel like a poster girl,” she says. “I’m kind of glad that I’m at the forefront of it.” It requires…
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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”.…
