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Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog

Exclusive: Failure to do so would betray working-class people, shadow health secretary says

The Guardian - UK

Cass review must be used as ‘watershed moment’ for NHS gender services, says Streeting

Shadow health secretary calls for more thoughtful approach but says he understand scepticism among trans people

The Guardian - UK

‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research

Cass review found professionals in the field are scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse

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Fears NHS crisis could last all year as London 12-hour A&E waits rise 11% in a month

Nearly a fifth of 12-hour waits took place in London hospitals

Evening Standard

Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Five thousand children with gender-related distress awaiting NHS care in England

New gender clinics looking at ‘creative ways’ of reducing waiting lists amid shortage of clinicians

The Guardian - UK

Ban on children’s puberty blockers to be enforced in private sector in England

CQC will check new guidance in Cass report is applied by private care providers to avoid ‘two-tier’ access to drugs

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The Guardian view on the Cass report: rising numbers of gender distressed young people need help

Editorial: The review of England’s child transgender health service is not a full stop in the debate but part of a continuing conversation

The Guardian - UK

Number waiting over 18 weeks for NHS heart treatment in England rises fivefold

Exclusive: doctors fear some of 163,000 people with serious issues may suffer a heart attack, stroke or die as a result of delay

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

A Fixed-term Parliaments Act must be restored, so election dates suit the national interest – not the prime minister’s, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Trans children are being 'let down by NHS' amid gender identity debate, major review finds

A new review has found that the debate around trans issues has led to children unsure of their gender identity being 'let down' by the NHS.

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‘Sunak has failed on the NHS’ says shadow health secretary as waiting list figures remain high – as it happened

Prime minister has ‘missed his own targets to cut ambulance and A&E waits’, says Wes Streeting as England waiting list figures remain near record levels

The Guardian - UK

Trans children in England worse off now than four years ago, says psychologist

Gender specialist says young people ‘paying the biggest price’ in wake of Cass report, with service ‘going backwards’

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Unpicking the landmark Cass report on gender identity services for children

In today’s newsletter: Dr Hilary Cass’s independent review into NHS services for children and young people has finally been released – but its publication is not likely to quell the febrile climate around the subject

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Patients in England to be offered daily pill that can halve migraine frequency

Nice approves first oral treatment with Atogepant that can prevent chronic and episodic migraines

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Hilary Cass’s proposals are mostly common sense. She must reject anti-trans bias with the same clarity

By failing to take on clinicians who doubt the very existence of trans people, the review lets down the children and young people it seeks to support, says journalist Freddy McConnell

The Guardian - UK

What Cass review says about surge in children seeking gender services

Report finds particularly complex factors may explain surge in birth-registered females referred to NHS Gids

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Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care

NHS England to review seven specialist services after staff share misgivings privately

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Patients let down by an out-of-touch NHS

Letters: Readers highlight inefficiencies in the health service’s outdated mode of communication

Evening Standard

Cass Report ‘watershed moment’ for children's gender care - The Standard podcast

Our Health Reporter Daniel Keane explains the key recommendations from the Cass Report into children's gender care.

Evening Standard

Cass review: Minister promises 'fundamental change' in NHS gender care for children

A minister on Wednesday promised a “fundamental change of direction” for NHS gender care for children after a landmark review found that the pillars of gender medicine are “built on shaky foundations”.

The Guardian - UK

‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services

Paediatrician’s anger about how NHS England has cared for generation of vulnerable children is barely disguised

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‘No good evidence’ for gender care for youth over long-term, review finds

Study commissioned by England’s health service says hormones should only be prescribed to teens with ‘extreme caution’.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of children unsure of gender identity ‘let down by NHS’, report finds

Leading consultant paediatrician says unproven treatments and ‘toxicity’ of trans debate damaging outcomes

The Guardian - UK

Review of gender services has major implications for mental health services

Cass report calls for move away from mainly medical treatment as part of dramatic shift in approach to gender dysphoria

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