Tag: Welsh Gender Service
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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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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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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Concerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session in which the Health and Social Care Minister outlined his priorities for the parliamentary session, Asghar said: “Recently, there have been some rather concerning revelations about the Welsh Gender Service,…
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Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?
The Welsh Gender Service is an interesting outfit. It is the only NHS clinic in Wales taking adult referrals from GPs. It is run by Dr Sophie Quinney, who was last seen in April, grabbing a camera out of a videographer’s hand, and allegedly having to be restrained by the police. According to information released…
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NHS Doctor Attacks Videographer
On Saturday 11 April various women’s groups around the country got together for a series of events under the One Year On banner, marking the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The 2025 ruling essentially established that in law, the word “woman” definitely means biological female. The One Year On event…
