There is no ‘backstory’ to ending of 2/care NHS Practitioner Health other than (we’re told) - no budget. To remind, it was established following suicide of a psychiatry who also killed her baby and highlighted the barriers doctors have in accessing mental health care.

Really good to finally see this recognition by the BMJ..

“education being a critical social determinant”

Those trade offs were taboo during the pandemic when services to kids were overly restricted

The decrease comes despite intensified efforts by the government to raise the nation’s low fertility rate on.ft.com/444f6tZ

Everyone has become an expert on children’s health and wellbeing—

Now let’s

get a secretary for state for children in cabinet,

give children voting rights,

Properly invest in children’s services after they were neglected during the pandemic

Gender services for children and adolescents across the EU-15+ countries
#CassReview

Across 8 countries:
Psychosocial support and interventions limited
Outcome data collection scarce

Online survey
adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Masculinising and feminising hormone interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence

Systematic review

Moderate-quality evidence from mainly pre–post studies hormone treatment may in short-term improve psychological health

adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Care pathways of children and adolescents referred to specialist gender services: a systematic review
#CassReview

Of 6133 children/adolescence received
36% puberty suppression
51% hormones
68% puberty suppression
16% surgery

adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

With the #CassReview we have just published a large number of articles underpinning the evidence

Read them here, all open access 🔓
adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

The Cass review is an opportunity to place evidence informed care at the heart of gender medicine, writes Kamran Abbasi in this week's Editor's Choice
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Community notes — am a fan

Britain must act or lose the global medicines competition on.ft.com/4arhuxo | opinion

NEW: Access to Sure Start greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results, by as much as three GCSE grades.

THREAD on Nick Ridpath, Sarah Cattan and Pedro Carneiro’s new report, funded by Nuffield Foundation, on Sure Start’s impact on educational outcomes: [1/10]

nothing short of structural violence against children

NYC eclipse

Adam highlighting how self-appointed experts dressed up politics as science

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