General Practitioners: Equality

(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 Jan 2020 to Question 4747 on Gender Recognition: Prescriptions, what steps his Department takes when general practitioners do not comply with Public Sector Equalities Duties and the Equalities Act 2010 in respect of the treatment of transgender and non-binary patients.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

The Department discharges its responsibilities through bodies such as the Care Quality Commission, clinical commissioning groups, NHS England and the General Medical Council, which have various legal, contractual and regulatory powers. The Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association also have a role in the advice and guidelines that they provide to general practitioners.

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