Completed - and linked below - Independent Patient Safety Investigation into prescribing practices at WellBN GP practice in Brighton and Hove

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https://www.surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ipsi-wellbn-general-practice-brighton/

The exec summary alone is damning.

"Care at the Practice for the 78 children and young people fell substantially below that set out in service specifications and national clinical policy. Puberty blockers and gender enhancing medications were prescribed without a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment (in 22 cases without even face-to-face appointments having taken place) without essential baseline and ongoing investigations and in 75 cases without referrals to 3 paediatric endocrinologists."

That's an improvement for the BBC considering how quiet they were about the Cass Review, WPATH and lots of other newsworthy stories.

I wonder how many of those WellBN kids were influenced by BBC output as they were growing up or whether they remember hearing that puberty blockers are a fully reversible pause button.

This practice was actively sought out by UK parents yes. They are not all local Brighton patients at all

Yes, the jump in referrals to GIDS coincided with the BBC showing 'I am Leo' on CBBC.

I don't know whether the programme reflected the jump in numbers of trans-identifying children or encouraged children to identify as trans. Possibly a bit of both.

I know I do this all the time. Too much. But the “other side” view on this is utterly terrifying

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1u38asy/wellbn_investigation/

“They are realy going to detransition us all, obviously death before detransition but they are gonna force that approach, death”

Christ alive:

”We really have no autonomy for children in this country.”

I was surprised how recent the cases were in the BBC report -
More than 20 children were given medication without a face-to-face appointment between February 2023 and December 2025.
How does this fit in with the timeline of Cass and pausing / stopping of prescriptions?