NHS to close Tavistock gender identity clinic for children

Tavistock and Portman trust's clinic to shut, with two services set up in hospitals in London and north-west England

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust after it was criticised in an independent review.

Regional centres will be set up to replace the service and ensure the holistic needs" of patients are fully met, NHS England said, after being warned that only having one provider was not a safe or viable long-term option".