GenderGP + Shared Care With NHS

[Badstyley]

I was having a nosey around a link I came across elsewhere earlier and I came across this.

At 16 your only private option is GenderGP, but that's fine cos they're the best anyway. Almost everything is online, and you can start hormones in the next couple of months. It costs a few hundred to start and then £30-50 a month to continue. However, they do discounts for students and low income families. Also if your gp agrees they can do a shared care agreement where the NHS does the prescriptions so it's even cheaper.

Is this true? Do GPs really carry out routine tests and prescriptions for people using this highly dubious service set up by a convicted criminal who’s business partner and husband is now also under investigation? That sounds very wrong to me.

Source link here.

I’ve tried something fancy with the link so if it doesn’t work I’ll post below.

Oh ok it failed. Damn you stranger on the internet and your bad advice.

www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/a0lq3h/whats_the_deal_with_hrt/

I am a GP and hell would freeze over before my practice would accept shared care in this circumstance.

Practices have no obligation to accept even NHS shared care arrangements if they don't feel it is within their competence. In reality though, with any official shared care arrangements with NHS services, there would have to be very good reason to decline. Hence even if I knew someone well and thought they were an autogynephile with nefarious intent rather than genuinely gender dysphoric, it would feel impossible to refuse shared care for hormone treatment once recommended by an NHS specialist.

But with private specialists of any sort one is naturally more sceptical and I think most GPs would do a bit of research into Gender GP and be horrified.

So, if a child is diagnosed by Webberley and arranges shared care with the GP, then later in life the child has serious health problems due to blockers/hormones, or if they regret it and feel they were pushed down a medical pathway too quickly without proper psychological assessment,would the NHS be jointly liable in any court case?

Also it’s lovely that they do discounts for disabled people and low income families. Does that include people who have been diagnosed Autistic by any chance?

Second question was half rhetorical half speculative btw, not expecting an answer.

I am aware of a couple of GPs who filled in the consultation because they were concerned about loosening of the law meaning added pressure to do shared care with private clinics.