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Why regulator status decides so much
In England, providers of medical treatment are meant to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC); in Scotland with Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS); in Wales with Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW). Services registered overseas sit outside all three. That matters less for the quality of a consultation than for what happens next: NHS England has told GPs that unregulated providers are a reason to decline shared care for under-18s, and many practices apply the same logic to adults. Practice policy pages routinely say they will not work with GenderGP specifically, and some accept only CQC-registered providers. If you will depend on your GP for NHS prescriptions and bloods, a UK-regulated provider is far more likely to get you there.
"Says it is registered" on this page means the provider's own website says so. Check for yourself: search the CQC register, HIS independent healthcare, HIW, and the GMC register for named doctors.
What your GP will do is the real cost
Private fees are only half the bill. If your GP agrees shared care you pay NHS prescription charges (nothing in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and get bloods on the NHS. If they refuse, you pay private prescription and lab fees indefinitely. Before choosing, look up what practices near you have said about each provider on Shared Care Map, and ask your practice manager in writing which providers they will work with.
For scale: across 19 GP practices whose published gender-care policies were read in September 2026, shared care with an NHS gender clinic was agreed by 13, conditional at 3 and refused by none; shared care with a private clinic was agreed outright by 2, conditional at 8 and refused by 10; and a bridging prescription was refused by 8 of the 9 that addressed it. A UK-regulated provider that sends an NHS-standard shared care protocol is what the "conditional" practices say they want.
Questions to ask any clinic before paying
- Which regulator are you registered with, and under what name? (Then check.)
- What is the total cost for the first year if my GP refuses shared care, including prescriptions and bloods?
- Will you write to my GP with a full shared care protocol, and what do you do if they refuse?
- Who is my named prescriber and what is their registration number?
- Can I stop the subscription at any time, and what happens to my prescriptions if I do?
- Do you accept transfer from another provider, and what do you need?
Sources and limits
Every card links to the page the facts came from. Fees change often; the date shown is when the pages were last checked. Providers not listed here are not excluded for any reason other than time. This is not medical advice and does not recommend any provider. Corrections and additions are welcome on GitHub. TransActual's private care page is the best general list of UK services and was the starting point for this one.