Redvers v NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board & Mr Adam Doyle Thread 3

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TT summary:

Dr Redvers, a named GP safeguarding lead, has a constructive dismissal case. Clinical concerns were raised about a specific doctor at WellBN, a Brighton GP practice. She claims that as a result of escalating those claims from 2020 onwards, she was constructively dismissed.

Her legal claim is discrimination on the grounds of her employer’s perception she had gender critical beliefs and on the grounds of her protected belief in evidence-based medicine (EBM). The respondent defends the latter claim by pleading that EBM is just an opinion.

Earlier coverage of this hearing can be found on TT's Substack at:
t.co/TwXeLCDnpt

TT report what they hear in good faith but do not provide a verbatim transcript of the hearing.

TT's list of abbreviations:

J - Judge Katherine Andrews (sitting alone)
DR/C - Doctor Sarah Redvers, claimant
CM/RB - Chris Milsom, claimant barrister
CE/RB - Charlotte Elves, Claimant Barrister
PD - Peter Daly, solicitor for the C

NHSSICB/R1 - NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board, first respondent
AD/R2 - Adam Doyle, second respondent, CEO of R1 2019-2025
Rs - collectively the respondents
RB/BW - Ben Williams, Respondent's barrister
EBM - Evidence-based medicine
SG - Safeguarding

WB - WellBN, Brighton based GP practice
GC - Gender Critical or sex realist beliefs
GI - Gender Identity belief
WS - Witness Statement
Ix - investigation
Gx - grievance
Cx - complaint

SH/DSH - Dr Sam Hall, GP at WellBN, Trustee - the Clare Project (TCP), Clinical Lead - Trans Health Hub, GIC Partner - Trans Health Improvement Board at R1, trans-identified female
DA - Dusty Amroliwala, ext consultant, investigated complaint filed by DSH against C
LB - Lola Banjoko, Exec Managing Director, chair of Trans Health Improvement Board, advised R1 on trans matters
NC - Nikky Cambridge, former trustee of TCP

AC - Allison Cannon, Chief Nursing Officer, R1, tasked w implementing the recommendations of the 1st grievance outcome
CCD - Dr Claire Cochrane-Dyet, Dep Medical Director for System Improvement & Professional Standards, NHSE, commissioned Warshafsky Report
HD - Dr Hannah Davies, Deputy Chief Medical Office, R1

SD - Samantha Durrant, Lay vice chair until July 2022, 1st grievance manager
NE - Naomi Ellis, dep director of Safeguarding, R1
MF - Dr Mary Flynn, Named GP for Safeguarding, also filed g/x in relation to Amroliwala Report
PF - Pennie Ford, Executive Managing Director, R1, 2nd grievance manager

EG - Dr Elizabeth Gill, Chief Medical Officer, R1
HH - Hannah Hamilton, Chief financial officer, R1, 2nd grievance appeal manager
BJ - Dr Becky Jarvis, clinical lead for mental health, R1
TM - Tom Micklewright, managing partner of Lime Tree Surgery

IM - Ian Mundy, HR Consultant, Your Consultancy, 1st grievance investigator
MP - Mark Power, interim Chief People Officer (until April 2022), R1, managed Amroliwala investigation
RR - Dr Rebecca Richards, GP partner, Lime Tree Surgery, raised concerns to C about SH
AR - Anne Robson, Interim Chief People Officer (April -August 2022), R1

DS - Dr Dinesh Sinha, Chief Medical Officer (June 2022 - April 2024), Chair of Trans Health Improvement Board (THIB)
MS - Mark Smith, Chief People Officer, R1 (Aug 2022 - Jan 2025) Acting CEO (Jan 2025 - June 2025) Deputy CEO & Director of Transition (June 2025 - present)
RW - Dr Robin Warshafsky, GP NHSE, Author of Warshafsky Report (WR)

Thread 1:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5586672-wellbn-brighton-gp-practice-do-not-believe-in-evidence-based-medicine-tt-at-employment-tribunal-tomorrow

Thread 2:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5588924-redvers-v-nhs-sussex-integrated-care-board-mr-adam-doyle-thread-2

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I've been following Alison Holt's work in this area for a while and generally it's been at a different level to what's gone on before at the BBC.

I wondered about her background and found this:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/investigative/alison-holt/

She is very well placed to be looking into the current scandal around gender identity and "trans healthcare" for children.

Public Service Head Honchos seem to have forgotten the age old mantra that the buck stops with the person at the top.

Very interesting thank you.
Ties in nicely with JKR's Orwell reference.

The law and facts all bend in one direction, towards a good Dr

I thought this was a great closing statement acknowledgement of a great Dr.

We salute you Dr Sarah Redbers, another legend in the battle for medical reality.

I haven't been able to follow this case closely, but I saw the report on BBC News earlier, and I thought it was well done.

That, and hearing Prof Sallie Baxendale on BBC R4's Inside Science, gives me hope that the BBC is turning things around.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5ynl415j79o

Well well. The worm is turning.

Good on Alison Holt, working at the BBC must be/have been difficult for her.

My assumption would be that she'll have been working with a disproportionate amount of colleagues who are parents with trans-identifying children.

What was lovely about the report was that it was just so normal and ordinary and non-performative. It's like when a noisy machine gets turned off: it's only when you suddenly notice the pure lovely silence that you realise how stressful its drone had been.

I missed it! It's probably on catch up somewhere. I admit I've been disappointed by the lack of coverage this ET had been getting. It was just a local rag, it seemed, that had published anything about it. I'm pretty gobsmacked that the Beeb has reported on it!!

I read the BBC article. Number eight in list of most read articles on the website. It quotes NHS Sussex saying " We engaged professionally and supportively with the Employment Tribunal." Well if a respondent doesn't engage with a tribunal they are likely to lose the case (although it is not inevitable). By the way, I may not share Dr Redvers belief in EBM, but I wish her well. I am still a bit lost in all the grievances and investigations.

Turns out education and social affairs are being combined. No-one seems to know which editor is getting axed/moved elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/22/bbc-news-to-axe-education-editor-role-in-cost-cutting-move

IPlayer news at 6 at about 18:25

Well, if Alison Holt is unlucky enough to be caught up in the cuts, looking to move elsewhere with a track record of holding to journalistic standards would be better than someone seeing where they can go by showing how they worked hard to uphold ideological adherence.

I am unsure what you mean by “i may not share DR R belief in EBM”

Can you explain please.

On again now on the 10 o clock news.

On BBC News at Ten now.

Pleased to see this still on the BBC news and a pleasing change to their previous "trans sacred caste that can never be challenged" approach.

Small steps but so important - especially when reporting on child abuse.

This practice has caused issues for local mental health services, as patients register there even though they live miles away, because the GP practice are pro-trans and prescribe hormone therapy. Then as they're registered with a Brighton GP, any other mental health issues they might have need to be treated by local MH services despite them not living in the area.

I rather enjoyed this bit:

Although Doyle at first denied to the tribunal he knew Hall before this, it emerged during the tribunal that he had previously had a number of mentoring meetings with the GP.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Just dropping an archived BBC article in case anyone sanitises it.

https://archive.ph/ag1X1

I think often these cases are better reported on substantially once concluded.

Not everyone follows the live courtroom dramas!

And reading that balanced, factual, and thorough BBC report is ... astonishing.

The bare facts laid out are thoroughly informative.

The case laid out so clearly in this BBC article is to me, staggering. In a good way!

I realise it's a positive but we're looking at a BBC report and marvelling that it's a reasonably decent attempt to give a factually correct account of a court case. Because we'd become so used to the BBC spreading disinformation in order to mislead the public when the truth would be ideologically inconvenient.