NHS to conduct £10 million puberty blockers trial

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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has confirmed that an NHS-funded trial into the potential benefits of puberty blockers is due to commence.

The trial, which was recommended in last year’s Cass Review, will be led by a team of researchers at King’s College London who will receive £10,694,902.24 in NHS funding to complete the study which will also look at other areas of children’s gender care.

The Cass Review found that existing studies into puberty blockers and their benefits were of “poor” quality, thus necessitating the need for new research to be carried out.

Under the trial, young people, with the agreement of their parents, will be given puberty suppressing hormones for a period of two years. Their physical, social and emotional well-being

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