A doctor’s actions amounted to “serious misconduct” as she did not discuss risks to fertility at a consultation before prescribing puberty blockers to an 11-year-old, a medical tribunal has found.
The tribunal inquired into allegations that Dr. Helen Webberley, founder of Gender GP, was accused of failing to provide good clinical care in 2016 to three patients aged 11, 12, and 17.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) runs hearings to make independent decisions about whether doctors are fit to practice medicine in the UK.
On Tuesday, the panel found that Webberley’s “fitness to practice is impaired on wider public interest grounds.”
The tribunal is still to decide whether to impose sanctions on her….