GenderGP... Telegraph expose

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/26/children-can-order-life-altering-transgender-drugs-bedroom/

Thanks for explaining everything.

Brexit means we should have a clear answer to that.

This is going to be one of the next be questions for UK citizens.

Should non-UK* people be able to deal drugs (take payment) to our children?

*including UK born people living abroad. And stripped of their medical licences.

Like Shamina Begum, will, or can they be stripped of their British/UK citizenship?

*Should non-UK residential people be able to deal drugs (take payment) that are given to our children?

It does feel like a massive loophole, and we also have issues with online pharmacies supplying prescription painkillers without proper medical oversight. Will try and find info on relevant legislation.

www.gov.uk/guidance/prescriptions-issued-in-the-eea-and-switzerland-guidance-for-pharmacists

In the UK gov Brexit guidance- prescriptions from Drs in the EAA are valid. However I'm not clear if prescriptions for unlicensed indications are valid- and cross sex hormones & puberty blockers are not licensed for gender dysphoria. Will try & clarify.

So.

Anyone, ANYONE - in the EU or in the UK - can take money for drugs to be prescribed for UK children?

Is that - legally - correct?!

Does that mean that we can all take money - and get a third country doctor from say, Egypt or Cyprus or Finland, to provide prescriptions.

ANY Mumsnetter is legally able to get a doctor from ANY country in the world to write up a UK legal prescription???!!!

Is that correct????!!!!

Is this relevant? Can we pursue through this route?

I’m not sure MHRA regulates everything or only those registered....

medicine-seller-register.mhra.gov.uk/report

Baroness Nicholson wrote to Matt Hancock and copied to Lord Bethell on this subject on 18 December 2020.

She does not seem to have had a reply yet but says she is confident that they will act:

"Letter on the out of country clinic offering drugs to children"
twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1349102515237826563
Archived: archive.is/UvMsZ

"Pages 3 & 4 of my letter"
twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1349103130638692354
Archived: archive.is/1h9x4

Thank goodness for Baroness Nicolson.