Patients at Jubilee Park Medical Partnership in Nottinghamshire have spoken about having their HRT treatment removed.
Samathy Barratt and Alex Roberts say they feel clinicians ‘abandoned’ them Alex Roberts, a game programmer in Nottingham , had waited a month for the call. A week before Christmas, their phone buzzed. It was their GP. All the 32-year-old had asked from their practice was a small change to the medication they had been receiving for three years. Instead, they were told that in only a few months, their gender-affirming healthcare would come to an end.
Nottingham against Transphobia arranged the protest Appointments can be up to £500. Prices for testosterone gel are around £50 for two months while injections can be £100 for a three-month supply. Oestrogen gel, patches and pills are around £10 for a two-to-eight-week, two-to-four-week and one-to-four-week supply respectively. This does not include additional costs such as prescriptions, blood tests, monitoring and injection equipment.
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