Towards Best-Practice Healthcare for Transgender Patients: Quality Improvement in United Kingdom General Practice.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The ongoing care of transgender patients in United Kingdom (UK) general practice (GP) is hampered by a lack of UK primary care guidelines regarding the monitoring of treatments, despite the key role that general practice has in holistic lifelong care. This quality improvement project aimed to audit the monitoring of treatments and health screening in a GP practice population, across two large practices in southwest England, in order to drive local improvement and to identify gaps in wider healthcare support for this population. Methods: This project updated a previously published audit instrument, incorporating a novel, pragmatic standard, based on up-to-date UK gender clinic guidelines and the UK population screening programmes. National Health Service (NHS) He

SUBMITTER: Silver C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11855766 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature