Gender identity clinic information sessions for GPs
3 April Online
The team at the Gender Identity Clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is running an information session for GPs, nurses and healthcare professionals on Thursday 3 April from 6:30pm.
In this session our team of experts will deliver a high calibre evening of learning for GPs, nurses and healthcare professionals working at all levels. Hear about the latest updates in the field of gender work and find out more about prescribing guidelines. Meet gender specialists who have decades of experience working across primary and acute care, and network with your colleagues and peers.
At the session you will hear information on gender services, prescribing, as well as helpful advice about how best to look after this growing population of patients. There will be an opportunity to have your questions answered, and to share your concerns, ideas and experiences. This session can be counted as CPD.
What you’ll take away
How to refer patients with gender dysphoria directly to a multidisciplinary gender identity clinic
An understanding that people in a new gender role usually need a lifelong prescription of maintenance hormone therapy and the implications for you
That a patient’s prior change of gender role is rarely clinically relevant and does not need to be mentioned
The need to consider birth gender when offering routine screening for cervical and breast cancer and aortic aneurysm
Clarity around how a patient with a new role would like to be addressed and how to amend records accordingly to avoid subsequent upset and possible complaints
