Transgender Prescribing Policy

Stoneham Lane Surgery Transgender Prescribing Policy

We support all patients within the scope of our expertise, and your safety and wellbeing are our top priorities. However, due to the high prescribing risks, we are unable to help patients with their transition treatment. This requires specialist expertise, advice & guidance and specialist monitoring.

Once you are fully transitioned, we may be able to prescribe ongoing maintenance therapy, but this will be strictly on an individual basis and would require ongoing shared care arrangements with an NHS specialist gender clinic and be within our NHS prescribing guidelines.

Please note:

• We do not prescribe medications recommended by private gender clinics or specialists as such providers often do not give an NHS-level standard of care.
• We do not enter into shared care arrangements with private gender clinics or specialists for the same reason. This includes blood test monitoring of private hormone treatments.
• We do not provide “bridging prescriptions” if a patient has been initiated on private prescriptions or has sourced them online themselves and is on the waiting list for NHS specialist gender care as this falls outside of our level of expertise and competence.

For further information, please read the Royal College of General Practitioners’ (RCGP) policy statement on this issue: