The new hubs will be led by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.
New gender clinics for children are due to open after a year-long delay and to a waiting list of thousands as the Tavistock service closes its doors.
Health minister Maria Caulfield said the clinics will include experts on safeguarding, neurodiversity and mental health NHS England hopes they will be the first of up to eight specialist centres as part of the north and south hubs over the next two years and described their opening as “just the first step in establishing a new model which provides holistic support for children and young people and their families”.
The closure of the service at the Tavistock – which had come under repeated scrutiny – was prompted by a review which stated a need to move away from one unit and recommended the creation of regional services to better support young people. She added that Gids had not collected routine and consistent data “which means it is not possible to accurately track the outcomes and pathways that children and young people take through the service”.In March, NHS England confirmed children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics,.
As the new clinics open, an NHS England spokesperson said: “In line with the Cass Review, NHS England took the decision to close the Tavistock and set up a fundamentally different and improved approach to children and young people’s gender services.
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