Hilary Dawn Cass is a British medical doctor and a consultant in paediatric disability at

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. She was the President of the

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from 2012 to 2015.

Early life

She was educated at the

City of London School for Girls (''O Lord Direct us'') , established = 1894 , closed = , type = Independent day school , religion = , president = , head_label = Headmistress , head = Jenny Brown , r_head_label = ...

. She studied at the Royal Free hospital medical school, graduating with a degree in medicine. From 1994 to 2009 she was a consultant in paediatric disability at

Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...

(GOSH). She left after raising concerns about patient safety at the hospital.

Honours and awards

She accepted an

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

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for services to child health. The Royal College of Nursing awarded her an honorary fellowship in 2015. In September 2020, she accepted to lead the independent

Cass Review The NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) is a nationally operated health clinic specialising in working with children with gender identity issues, including gender dysphoria. Although based at a Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation T ...

for the NHS into gender identity services for children and young people. The interim report of the Cass Review was published in March 2022. It said that the rise in referrals had led to the staff being overwhelmed, and recommended the creation of a network of regional hubs to provide care and support to young people. The report noted that the clinical approach used by GIDS "has not been subjected to some of the usual control measures" typically applied with new treatments, and raised concerns about the lack of data collection by GIDS.

References

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