NHS inquiry finds Brighton GP gender hub ‘potentially harmed’ 78 children

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

NHS inquiry finds Brighton GP gender hub 'potentially harmed' 78 children

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/12/brighton-gp-gender-clinic/ 🔗

Michael Stevens (12 June 2026)

An NHS safety investigation found 78 under-18s at the WellBN clinic in Brighton were potentially harmed after being prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without proper checks. The findings are published on the NHS investigation page.

More than 20 children were given medication without a face-to-face appointment between February 2023 and December 2025. Necessary blood tests were often not carried out, and the overall risk to young patients was potentially high, with actual harm difficult to quantify in part because of poor record-keeping.

NHS England told WellBN it must stop offering new prescriptions to children and said a number of current and former clinicians had been referred to medical regulators. One unnamed doctor was suspended from working as an NHS GP while further investigations are ongoing.

Dr Christopher Tibbs, regional medical director for NHS England, said young people were put at a high risk of harm because clinicians provided "specialist diagnosis, care and treatment that they were neither qualified, nor commissioned to deliver". He added: "Under no circumstances should this have happened,"

The inquiry found 44 children aged 16 and under were prescribed drugs designed to delay or suppress puberty, including 12 children under 13 and one aged 11. It also found 51 children aged 16 and under were given cross-sex hormones, including four under 13. In 53 of the 78 cases reviewed, there were possible neuro-developmental issues.

[big kim]

Yet they've been giving them to kids and adults with learning disabilities years before trans kids and still doing it today!