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BBC NEWS | Wales | Health body ’should be scrapped’
Health Commission Wales (HCW), the controversial body which controls specialist NHS treatment, should be scrapped, an official report says.

The report, ordered by Health Minister Edwina Hart, found fundamental flaws in HCW’s establishment and said it should be replaced by an independent body.

HCW was inadequately planned and not allocated enough money, it said.

Ms Hart said the new panel would increase patient and public engagement in a difficult decision-making process.

She said: “I am not one of those people who believes that lay people cannot be trusted to be involved in these sorts of decisions.

“I am convinced that substantially-increased engagement by members of the lay public in these profoundly difficult decisions will lead to improved transparency and public confidence in both the processes and its outcomes.”

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I’m off to see my Clinical Psychiatrist on the 9th, no it’s not because I’m going loopy, it’s just a friendly visit to see her to show her how I’ve got on and to thank her for everything she helped me with in the early days of my transition.

I’ve not seen her for ages, so it will be a good opportunity to catch up and to find out if she has any news on the situation that others may be facing with the long fight for funding from the Health Commission Wales (HCW), which will give me the chance to post any updates about the HCW etc to this little blog and to post about them on the GRS Wales website so those that  may be starting on the transition road may find useful and what hurdles they may have to jump to get anywhere with the pig-headed HCW.

Anyway that’s on the 9th May, I’ve not got far to travel it’s only into Liverpool, it’ll be a day out and an excuse to do some shopping ;)

I’ll post any news and updates around the time when I get back, but until then, ciao for now!

While surfing the net to looking for site that may have any updates on the Health Commission Wales’ total disregard for those diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria, I came across really useful post on a blog about the Gender Recognition Act, so follow the link for a great description of the act.

While working on the updates to the GRSWales website I noticed that the links to the “interesting PDF files” are now been re-directed to the new Welsh Assembly Government website, it seems that nearly all links or information on GID (Gender Identity Disorder) and GRS (Gender Reassignment Surgery) have been removed from their website.

So the question I’m asking is, Does the Health Commission Wales care about those of us diagnosed with GID or is it that they have a total disregard for something they do not understand, it certainly seems that they have no interest in the subjects of GID or GRS and are making it nigh on impossible for anyone living in Wales to get any help whatsoever.

I’m going to look further into this and get in touch the Clinical Psychologist I had to see through my transition to see if she can shine any light on what is happening with the Health Service in Wales with regards to gender issues.

But in the meantime, if anyone has any information or is having problems with funding or even getting any scrap of help from the HCW with regards to GID or GRS then please let me know.

I’ve been working hard today on my website, GRS Wales, trying to find links on the site that are out of date, I’ve found a few, but some are still there so I will continue working on it tomorrow and hopefully it will be finished.

While checking out the links I came across an interesting Disclosure log at the Welsh Assembly Goverments website where A member of the public has requested copies of Health Commission Wales information on the funding of gender identity treatment

But it does seem that the HCW (Health Commission Wales) has no interest in funding or any help for those with Gender Dysphoria as you can’t seem to find anything on their website, even by searching it.

The fight still goes on…..

I recieved this in my inbox today from and it is in regards to a survey for trans patients:

“THE FOLLOWING IS REALLY IMPORTANT

PLEASE HELP BY COMPLETING THE SURVEY AND BY
HELPING TO PUBLICISE AND CIRCULATE THE
QUESTIONNAIRES TO PEOPLE TREATED IN THE UK

For all the details including paper forms see:

http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/1507

To go straight to the survey see:

http://tinyurl.com/298uoy

=============================
Department of Health
Treatment Satisfaction Survey
For Trans Patients in the UK
============================= ”

So to everyone treated in the UK, please fill out the survey.