NHS boards requested CMO adopt Cass Review recommendations

An article in yesterday’s Telegraph SNP government’s health chief urged to adopt Cass Review by senior doctors and another in today’s Times Top doctor challenged over transgender care covered the Chief Medical Officer’s response to correspondence from the directors of Glasgow and Lothian NHS boards seeking to follow the Cass Review’s recommendations.

“The most senior clinicians in Scotland could not be clearer that Scotland must follow the science and implement the findings of the Cass Review,” Trina Budge, a director at campaign group For Women Scotland, said.

“Yet they have been repeatedly fobbed-off by the chief medical officer, who shamefully also shut down their calls for an independent review into the safety of puberty blockers and then had to be bounced into a belated ban.”

“It is time for Sir Gregor to finally grow a backbone, stand up to the ideologues and do the right thing for children across Scotland.”

The letters were released under our Freedom of Information request, and are given below: