New NHS Gender Clinic recruiting??

[gardenbird48]

lgbt.foundation/jobs

Hope this link works - they seem to be recruiting for a number of staff including 6 Care Navigators that are specifically required to be trans affirmative. They state that they are a new NHS Gender Clinic - does this sound right?

I'm trying to work out what the issue is? This is supportive, not clinical

Well they can't spell "dual"...
I wonder if this is from the Liz Truss announcement as seems to be a pilot?

How does this fit in with now having to follow evidence based approaches. Didnt it just come out in court that affirmation isnt ?

This is to be expected as there has been expansion of services following NHSE's service spec in 2018. This was introduced despite growing concern from lots of groups about the treatment of young people. These are all adult services but they take referrals from 17 up, and we know that a lot of the new cohort are very young females.

I don't think there will be any difficulty recruiting into these support posts, as there are lots of people keen to work in advocacy roles. The problem will be recruiting into the clinical posts, particularly those prescribing roles. I really can't imagine any doctor wanting to put their licence on the line by prescribing when there is a JR looking at the ethics of this right now.

Of course they might try to get round it by using non-medical prescribers, but even then, there has to be a supervising doctor overseeing other prescribers which ends up with the same problem.
I suspect the problem of really long waits for hormones will persist despite these bigger services, as there will be a lack of doctors.

Complete waste of time and money when the NHS has got bigger things to worry about and we are suffering years of underfunding. Imagine thinking this was a priority!

@highame

I'm trying to work out what the issue is? This is supportive, not clinical

I was just thinking that the affirmation only approach is one that has been indicated by people like Keira as not being particularly helpful.

Obviously they want people who are going to be sympathetic to trans people but isn’t the issue that the gender clinics are explicitly not exploring any psychological issues that the people are experiencing?

I've done a bit of googling and it seems to be working with an existing provider of "crisis" support GDT Heathcare (no particular speciality?).

And the new clinic is described as:

"The new service, which is planned to open later this year, will initially focus on supporting people who are on a waiting list for a gender dysphoria clinic appointment, are already registered with a GP in Greater Manchester, and are eligible for NHS treatment."

www.gmcvo.org.uk/news/indigo-gender-service-%E2%80%93-new-nhs-adult-gender-dysphoria-service-greater-manchester

I think this must have been planned before the Liz Truss announcement, which I took to mean there would be more gender dysphoria clinics. But who knows. Maybe they knew what was going to be said, and a bit like Boris, had an oven ready deal ready and waiting for the go ahead!

srumledin

I think this must have been planned before the Liz Truss announcement, which I took to mean there would be more gender dysphoria clinics. But who knows. Maybe they knew what was going to be said, and a bit like Boris, had an oven ready deal ready and waiting for the go ahead!

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