GPs call for better gender dysphoria services

Current care pathways for gender dysphoria are putting patients at risk by forcing GPs to prescribe outside their competency, GPs at the annual conference of England’s local medical committees have said.In a motion passed in full, GPs said that they were “dismayed by the lack of adequate gender dysphoria services” and that the BMA must ensure that NHS England commissions appropriate services at a local level that “provide ongoing prescribing and support for patients with gender dysphoria.”Speaking in favour of the motion, the North Yorkshire GP Catherine Chapman said, “Gender dysphoria is a very specialist area and is not well taught in GP training. It certainly hasn’t been in the past. As GPs we should only be prescribing within our competences, and this is supported by GMC guidance.”Chapman said that her local referral pathway stated that if GPs did not think they were capable of taking on prescribing this could…
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