New NHS children’s gender clinic hit by disagreements and resignations

The Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock clinic in north London is to replaced by a group of new hubs. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

A string of resignations from a team preparing for the launch of the new NHS children’s gender clinic has further complicated plans to open the services in April.

Disagreements over the text of a training module for medical recruits to the new gender service have prompted NHS England to remove the training materials project from a team at Great Ormond Street hospital and outsource it to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.