Sophie Quinney
Sophie Quinney | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of London (MB BS) |
| Occupation | Clinical Director of the Welsh Gender Service |
Sophie Quinney is the Clinical Director of the Welsh Gender Service and a General practitioner who has a special interest in transgender healthcare.
Early life and education
Quinney studied at University of London, obtaining her MB BS in 2000.[1] She previously served as the associate medical director for the Welsh Commissioner.[2] Quinney has previously worked as a GP for Meddygfa Canna Surgery in Cardiff.[2]
Career
In June 2015 Quinney joined the GP Register and began working as a locum GP across South Wales.[1][3] She became the Welsh representative of GP Survival, an organisation advocating for GPs struggling with large work loads.[4][5] As the Welsh representative she ran a month long weekly volunteer clinic at Horeb Surgery in Treorchy in July 2016, to support the sole GP in charge of the practice.[3] The practice intended to close at the end of July, leaving over 3,000 registered patients without a local GP.[6][7]
Quinney warned that closures were the result of GPs struggling throughout Wales due to a lack of GPs who were over worked and struggling with high levels of stress.[8][4] She has also called for the Welsh Government to cover insurance costs for doctors who are working out of hours, something that can cost more to £15,000 if the doctor works out of hours full-time.[9] In 2017, she encouraged GPs to explain to patients the issues their practises were facing around staffing shortages. Doing so, she said, would make patients more supportive.[10][11]
In 2018 Quinney worked at the Cardiff Health Access Practice, a service run by the Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board to provide health screenings for asylum seekers arriving in Wales.[12][13]
Throughout her career Quinney has been supportive of transgender healthcare in Wales, specialising in gender identity medicine, becoming the first doctor to do so within Wales.[14] She worked with Pride Cymru in 2020, running a transgender healthcare Q&A. She has released guidance on how doctors can treat transgender patients with dignity,[15][16][17] and in 2022 advised the Welsh Government for the LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales.[18]
Welsh Gender Service
The Welsh Gender Service was initially announced by Vaughan Gething in 2017.[19] Following multiple delays it was opened in September 2019, in St David's Hospital, Cardiff.[20][21] As part of the preparations for the Welsh Gender Service's expected opening, Quinney trained fellow consultants, allowing them to work as part of a local gender team.[2] Following the services opening, Quinney joined as a Gender Specialist.[14] She later became the Clinical Director.[22][23]
References
- 1 2 "Registrants details page". www.gmc-uk.org. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 Potter, Costanza (8 January 2020). "Working Life: Working in trans health". Pulse Today. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- 1 2 Smith, Mark (30 June 2016). "This GP has offered to work FOR FREE to help overworked colleague". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- 1 2 Brennan, Shane (18 May 2017). "GP warns surgeries in 'perfect storm' as they struggle to cope with cuts and recruitment". North Wales Live. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Who are we? | General Practice Survival". www.generalpracticesurvival.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Flynn, Jessica (21 June 2016). "Angry patients attend meeting to discuss the closure of a Treorchy surgery". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "GP 'close to burn-out' over workload". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "GPs stepping down 'to stay sane'". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Calls for government to pay GP out-of-hours insurance costs". BBC News. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Shipton, Martin (4 September 2017). "'GP surgeries will close and low-cost staff will replace doctors'". Wales Online. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Wales: 'GP surgeries will close and low-cost staff will replace doctors' | Practice Business". 5 September 2017. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Sanctuary | Cardiff Health Access Practice". sanctuary.gov.wales. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Asylum seekers need dedicated GP healthcare, Welsh doctor says". BBC News. 15 April 2018. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- 1 2 "CHIEF EXECUTIVE CONNECTS". 31 August 2022. Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Vincent, Ben; Quinney, Sophie (30 April 2021). "What all doctors should know about trans health – a conversation between a medic and a sociologist". The British Student Doctor Journal. 5 (2): 21. doi:10.18573/bsdj.285. ISSN 2514-3174.
- ↑ "NHS Guidance for GP's Transgender Patients". 14 December 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "HEIW launches new gender diversity and trans health training modules". HEIW. 18 February 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Ali, Joseph (20 August 2022). "Pinc List 2022: Wales' most influential LGBT+ people". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Making Healthcare for Transgender People More Accessible". Business News Wales. 23 August 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Royce, Lydia (23 August 2019). "'It is going to change lives' - Wales Gender Service clinics to begin". Wales Online. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "First Welsh gender identity clinic to open in September". BBC News. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Meet The Team – Gender.Wales". Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Doctors and psychologists specialising in gender dysphoria". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 5 June 2026. Retrieved 5 June 2026.