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I know we're dealing with the Data bill amendment in parliament but there's ANOTHER vote happening that affects trans people GPs are having a vote this Friday about whether or not to record "biological" sex at birth on our NHS records at the LMC (Local Medical Committees) conference in Glasgow

May 7, 2025, 5:56 AM

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    "text": "I know we're dealing with the Data bill amendment in parliament but there's ANOTHER vote happening that affects trans people \n\nGPs are having a vote this Friday about whether or not to record \"biological\" sex at birth on our NHS records at the LMC (Local Medical Committees) conference in Glasgow",
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          "alt": "RECORDS OF TRANSGENDER PATIENTS 10.00\r\n \n\r\n19 AGENDA COMMITTEE TO BE PROPOSED BY KENSINGTON, CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER: \n\nThat conference \r\nexpresses concern in offering our transgender patients the most appropriate options for care and \r\ntreatment, while also maintaining their medical records and requires: \r\n(i) clear national guidance on whether to redact and rescan entire old NHS records into new records, \r\nwith adequate resourcing to support any redaction and rescanning of medical records for these \r\npatients \r\n(ii) support for patients who wish to have their original details kept un-redacted \r\n(iii) clinical systems to include in the patient registration biological sex, preferred gender pronoun, \r\ntitle for correspondence and gender reassignment \r\n(iv) the use of additional data fields, beyond just those referencing gender or sex, that would identify \r\npatients suitable for screening and automatically invite them to join an appropriate national \r\nscreening programme. \n\r\n19a KENSINGTON, CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER: That conference expresses concern in maintaining the \r\nmedical records of our transgender patients and requires:\r\n(i) clear national guidance on whether to redact and rescan entire old NHS records into new records\r\n(ii) adequate resourcing to support any redaction and rescanning of medical records for these \r\npatients\r\n(iii) support for patients who wish to have their original details kept un-redacted\r\n(iv) clinical systems to include in the patient registration biological sex, preferred gender pronoun, \r\ntitle for correspondence and gender reassignment but the explicit consent from patients must be \r\nobtained and recorded when including any of these details in the medical record.\n\r\n19b CHESHIRE: That conference believes that the inability to separately record ‘sex at birth’ and ‘gender \r\nidentity’ using the personal demographics service (PDS) and the electronic health record (EHR) is not only \r\ncausing distress to trans and non-binary patients accessing ca…",
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