The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there is “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
While health is a devolved matter, the ban applies across the UK, the DHSC said, adding that the decision had been taken in consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and in agreement with the Northern Ireland government.
Plans are in place to set up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year, with an aim to recruit the first patients by spring.
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