<div>IMPORTANT UPDATE : 20 JULY 2026
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<div>The video above records the position when this fundraiser was launched. At that time, affected families had been told that WellBN prescribing would end after 31 July 2026.
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<div>Following further discussions with NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB, WellBN has now told families that the ICB’s current understanding is that prescribing may continue temporarily beyond 31 July for children whose referral to an NHS gender service has been accepted and who continue actively engaging with that service. WellBN may prescribe only until the gender service directs it either to continue or stop. Written confirmation of this arrangement is still awaited.
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<div>For families who have not accepted a referral by 31 July, WellBN has been told that prescribing must still stop on that date.
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<div>This is therefore a temporary extension for some children, not secure continuity of care.
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<div>The ICB’s own published Quality Impact Assessment anticipated that services would be likely to withdraw the medication of WellBN children under 16 and admit them to the NHS pathway. Its June 2026 information also states that the Children and Young People’s Gender Service will not prescribe masculinising or feminising hormones to children under 16 and will not oversee puberty-suppressing medication for them.
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<div>A family already assessed by CYPGS has received written confirmation that the service will not take over prescribing or medical oversight in their child’s circumstances. Another family already attending the service reported being told during an appointment that medication would not be available to their child through CYPGS.
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<div>For 16 and 17 year olds, the possibility described by the ICB is narrow and conditional: medication could continue only if the specialist gender service recommends it and creates an individual care plan.
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<div>For some children, the 31 July cliff edge remains. For others, it has been moved to the unknown date when CYPGS completes its assessment and decides whether existing treatment must stop.
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<div>The need for this fundraiser has not ended. Funds remain urgently required for legal advice and representation, safe and lawful medical continuity where available, safeguarding and clinical advocacy, correcting inaccurate records, and helping children whose age or circumstances leave them without an immediately accessible alternative.
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<div>We will continue to report material changes openly as the position develops.
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<div>Families of trans children urgently need help before a 31 July 2026 NHS medication deadline.
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<div>We are affected parents raising funds to support WellBN families impacted by an NHS review into gender-related care previously provided through WellBN in Brighton and Hove. This is a parent-led support fundraiser for affected families who choose to apply, not an official representative body speaking on behalf of every affected family.
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<div>Families have now received outcome letters which say that some children’s NHS prescribing will end, or cannot continue without specialist NHS support, after 31 July 2026.
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<div>Parents are terrified because these letters appear to contain serious factual inaccuracies about children’s care, records, appointments, consent, monitoring and support. These inaccuracies are now being relied on in decisions that may affect whether children can continue medication they have already been receiving.
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<div>This is not an abstract debate. These are real children and real families.
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<div>Before finding care through WellBN, many families had already been through years of fear and crisis. Parents describe children who were severely distressed, suicidal, self-harming, unable to cope, or becoming dangerously unwell while waiting for help that did not arrive in time. Families say CAMHS and ordinary mental health interventions had not been enough, and the official NHS gender pathway involved waits so long that some parents genuinely feared their children would not survive long enough to reach the top of the list.
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<div>Parents sought help because they were trying to keep their children alive and safe.
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<div>Under Dr Sam Hall’s care, families say their children stabilised, improved and began to thrive. Parents describe children who were finally able to live, attend school or college, reconnect with family life, look towards the future and begin recovering from the distress they had been left in before they found effective care.
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<div>That is why this deadline is so frightening.
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<div>The investigation process itself has been devastating for families.
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<div>Parents describe months of fear, uncertainty and confusion while decisions were being made about their children’s care. Families say they were not given meaningful involvement in the process, even though the decisions being made could affect whether their children could continue medication they had already been receiving.
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<div>Many parents felt left in the dark, forced to wait for answers while their children became more frightened and distressed. Some families had already warned that the process was harming their children, but still felt they were being pushed through a system they could not properly challenge.
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<div>Then the outcome letters arrived with a hard 31 July deadline. Parents say some letters contain serious inaccuracies about their children’s care, while giving no clear, fast route to correct those errors before medication is stopped or restricted.
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<div>For families, this has meant trying to protect children who had finally become stable, while also gathering evidence, writing complaints, seeking lawyers, dealing with NHS processes, and trying to keep their children safe day by day.
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<div>Some children have deteriorated badly under the pressure of the investigation and the threat of losing care. Parents report increased distress, anxiety, self-harm risks, eating difficulties and serious mental health decline. These are children who needed stability and continuity, not months of uncertainty followed by a sudden deadline.
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<div>We are hugely grateful that support through the Good Law Project route is helping 10 families. But almost 100 families may be affected. Those families cannot be left behind.
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<div>We are raising funds for urgent legal and care-related support before the deadline.
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<div>Money raised may be used for:
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<div>* urgent solicitor and barrister advice
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<div>* evidence review
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<div>* legal letters before the 31 July deadline
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<div>* possible injunction or pre-action work
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<div>* support for families challenging inaccurate outcome letters
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<div>* care-related costs if families are forced to seek safe alternatives
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<div>* practical administration needed to organise evidence and protect families’ privacy
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<div>Families are trying to act responsibly and urgently. We need legal advice to understand whether the deadline can be paused while errors are corrected, whether the process has been lawful and fair, and how children can be protected from avoidable harm.
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<div>No child will be publicly identified. We will not publish private medical records. Funds will be used only for legal, care-related and practical work connected to protecting the affected families.
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<div>The deadline is very close. Families are exhausted, frightened and trying to protect their children while navigating an extremely complex NHS process.
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<div>Even if you can only spare £1, it helps.
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<div>Please donate if you can, and please share this fundraiser widely.
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<div>Trans children deserve safety, accuracy, dignity and due process.
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