Scottish Health Boards Pause Puberty Blocker Prescriptions

Published on April 18, 2024

Two health boards in Scotland, including the only gender clinic in the country for children, will pause the prescription of puberty blockers to new patients. NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) said on Thursday the decision came as a result of the Cass Review in England and was supported by Scotland’s chief medical officer, Sir Gregor Smith. The NHSGGC is home to Scotland’s only gender clinic for under-18s—the Sandyford clinic—which also confirmed that patients aged 16 to 17 will no longer be prescribed cross-sex hormones until they are 18. Both boards said they had deferred starting new patients on puberty blockers in mid-March, following the same decision by NHS England. Patients already prescribed puberty blockers will continue to receive them....

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