Gender clinic doctor’s care ‘failed’

Dr Helen Webberley is alleged to have failed three patients
Dr Helen Webberley is alleged to have failed three patients
ADRIAN SHERRATT FOR THE TIMES

A doctor who ran an unlicensed online gender identity clinic treating children as young as 12 is accused of failing to provide good clinical care to three patients, a tribunal was told.

Helen Webberley is also accused of prescribing inappropriately to two other patients through the online clinic GenderGP, which she founded with her husband, Michael.

In late 2017 the General Medical Council temporarily stopped Webberley from working as a doctor in Britain while it investigated complaints from doctors working within the NHS gender identity clinics.

Webberley, 52, now faces 29 charges relating to the period from March to November 2016, which includes failure to provide good clinical care to three child patients who received hormone treatment. She denies most of the allegations.

Webberley is