{"id":18140,"date":"2024-12-11T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:27:24","slug":"indefinite-ban-on-puberty-blockers-to-be-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18140","title":{"rendered":"Indefinite ban on puberty blockers to be introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting says.<\/b><\/p>\n

Streeting told the House of Commons he was making the temporary ban currently in place indefinite across the UK, following a consultation and advice from the Commission on Human Medicines, calling the way it had been used a “scandal”.<\/p>\n

The expert group said prescribing the drugs to children for gender dysphoria was an “unacceptable safety risk”.<\/p>\n

The health secretary said the review had found cases where children had been prescribed the treatment after filling out an online form and only having one online consultation with a health care provider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Puberty blockers are drugs used to delay or prevent puberty happening.<\/p>\n

A temporary ban was put in place by the last Conservative government \u2013 and had been renewed twice by Streeting.<\/p>\n

Streeting said when it came to health care it was essential the government was evidence-led.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The order followed publication of a landmark review earlier this year<\/a> into gender care services for children by the paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass. <\/p>\n

It found a lack of evidence around treatment for under-18s with puberty-blocking drugs.<\/p>\n

In March, NHS England decided that puberty blockers would no longer be routine treatment for children with gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n

Then in May, the Conservative government tightened rules on the drugs, introducing an emergency ban on them being prescribed by private and European prescribers.<\/p>\n

This was kept in place by Labour when they came to power and was subsequently challenged in the High Court. The government won that case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Announcing the indefinite ban, Streeting said: “It is a scandal that medicine was given to vulnerable children without the proof that it was safe or effective.”<\/p>\n

But Streeting said the planned clinical trial by NHS England into the use of puberty blockers was going ahead.<\/p>\n

He said the ban would then be reviewed in 2027 in the light of any new evidence that emerged.<\/p>\n

Under-18s who were on the drugs before the ban was introduced have been allowed to continue using them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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