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Doctors who change gender scrub links to public records

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lcakethereforeIam · 20/02/2025 17:09

I thought this deserved its own thread, rather than being lost in the Sandie Peggie threads. So apologies for another one.

https://archive.ph/8YYuM

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/20/doctors-change-gender-scrub-records/

I can't say I'm surprised, it's really just confirmation of something I suspected from posts about the new GMC no. in the other threads. It's much the same as the the holes in safeguarding caused by allowing name and identity changes for any person who claims to be transgender.

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Romanswindowcleaner · 20/02/2025 17:13

I have worked with health related data and we don’t use sex or gender as a matching criterion and when I saw your header I thought - no matter, surely the GMC number will stay the same as that’s essential for clinical audit and service evaluation.

If the GMC number changes….why?! That will make a mockery of all sorts of checks and balances that are in place to monitor patient safety over the years (eg a surgeon carrying out unnecessary surgeries may take years to spot).

When I changed my name on marriage my SRA number stayed the same (and you can look at my previous names on the roll of solicitors I believe; or at least ask to).