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Stories
- Spends a £10bn a year on temporary staff.[1]
Competence
- More than 4million avoidable deaths since 2001.[2]
- Jessica's cancer was missed 20 times by GPs. A single private consultation gave the correct diagnosis.[3]
- Autism diagnosis wait times hit 300 days.[4]
- GP surgeries could be earning £1b per year from patients who don't exist.[5]
- Rugby player waited more than 5hours in agony for ambulance and then developed sepsis in Bristol hospital.[6]
Tavistock Transgender Clinic
- More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic.[7]
- Tavistock patient says she feels like an "experiment gone wrong" after mastectomy made her feel a lot worse.[8]
- An independent review found it was "not safe".[8]
- 382 children aged six and under were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by Tavistock.[7]
- The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals.[7]
- Tavistock are unable to provide figures on those who have undergone physical interventions.[7]
- Many former staff from Tavistock facility set up private gender clinic Gender Plus.[9]
- An independent review warned there was not enough research on the impact of hormones prescribed by Tavistock.[9]
- Tavistock had a policy of an unquestioning affirmative approach to gender identity.[9]