Helen Webberley is the doctor that mermaids refer people to.
She was recently convicted of running an unlicensed clinic. The GMC are investigating her.
But this isn’t her first clinic that’s been investigated.
https://web.archive.org/web/2019012...k/news/amp/uk-wales-south-east-wales-39520785
One of these websites was reprimanded for giving out a prescription in just 17 seconds:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171105182041/https://www.bbc.com/news/health-39450191
The care quality commission (cqc) investigates one of her clinics and this report is damning to say the least. Edited to add: one of these links says she charged 150quid an hour, so increase my rough figures accordingly.
https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/AAAG2254.pdf
(Not sure how to archive that, when I try, it just saves the first page so if anyone wants to archive it please do.)
Note the amount of money being made from prescriptions here- a private prescription in the UK will cost about 75- 100 quid. Probably nearer the upper end of that in this case because there are so few doctors who would prescribe blockers or hormones. So the report says 6700 prescriptions in a year - that’s half/three quarters of a million quid a year with almost no overheads.
Webberley also has three companies listed at companies house.
https://web.archive.org/web/2019012...cers/0avnd55-K20fi2CA7zfnh3P_r8A/appointments
With a further one closed.
While of course it’s not illegal to do this, it would be interesting to have a look at their accounts. Anyone with more financial acumen than me fancy doing it?
The above shows clearly that webberly is making a lot of cash from all this. The cqc report is damning on the risk to minors from poor safeguarding and practices.
I meant to do this earlier, but I had a look at those companies listed at Companies House. There's not a lot there in terms of financial records, I'm afraid.
The limited liability partnership, Clinical Opinions LLP, has around 300 members, mostly doctors including Webberley. She's not a major figure in it any more than the others are and again, there isn't much information about the LLP there (which is part of the point of an LLP after all). I don't recognise any famous troon quacks like Adrian Harrop in the list, so it doesn't seem to be relevant as far as I can tell.
Clinical Opinions's web-site is dead but it still has a page on LinkedIn.
Clinical Opinions LLP is a unique community of senior clinicians in the UK... The doctors own the business and share in all its profits. The community generates revenues from market research and advertising activities. Every week more GP’s and Consultants are joining Clinical Opinions to maximise the return on their available spare time and be part of a powerful new voice in healthcare.
Not particularly ethical, but nothing damning either. Depends on what the market research and advertising was and whether it conflicted with any of their medical practice, if any trans treatment manufacturers were paying them that's a potential conflict, but I wouldn't know where to look for that, and with 300 other doctors as partners it doesn't really implicate her.
For the limited companies (GenderGP, My Web Doctor, and Online GP Services) they're all either dormant or micro businesses, so they're exempt from auditing and they don't need to file profit & loss accounts if they don't want to. The balance sheets don't show anything, it's just stating that Helen Webberley owns these shares.
So, no P&L accounts, but there's other details there. The SIC codes are a bit strange for a start - Webberley is a GP and offers general medical practice services, but the companies are registered as being in different sectors, Gender GP is "general medical practice", My Web Doctor is "physical wellbeing activities" and Online GP Services Ltd is "specialists medical practice".
The interesting stuff is in who else owns these companies and who's involved. Online GP Services Ltd is run by Dr Helen Webberley and Dr Mike Webberley. I wasn't aware of him, so looked him up. Turns out he's her husband and is no stranger to GMC investigations himself. Looking up "Webberley" on the medical register gets you this:
Helen's record:
So Helen was suspended 26th November 2018, and is still under review.
Suspended
This means the doctor is suspended from the register and for the time being is
not permitted to (amongst other things):
- work as a doctor in the National Health Service (NHS) or in private practice
- prescribe drugs
- sign certificates required for statutory purposes (death certificates, etc.)
As for Mike Webberley:
He's a gastro-enterologist, not a GP, so I'm not sure why he's involved with the GP services or any of this. A lot of troon lolcows seem to have issues with diapers so maybe he's helping cure those?
He's allowed to practise medicine but with some pretty stringent conditions. Basically he has to tell the GMC about everything he does and he's not allowed to prescribe hormone treatments to patients without examining them in person.
From Googling his name I found that Helen and Mike also have a
YouTube channel.
The most recent upload was from 2017,
this clip from BBC Wales that she proudly puts up:
Highlights include saying that preferring different clothes
might mean you're trans
People can
turn gay or straight over time, you might change your mind one day
This is my favourite. Men can be killed with blood transfusions from women who've ever been pregnant, but if something occurs naturally in enough of the population it can't be that bad. Hippocrates who? And of course she whips out the claim that you'll inevitably get suicidality, self-harm and anxiety if you don't trans.
Bonus
husband vid where he decries other doctors for bothering to assess their patients before prescribing anything. Bit weird given that his wife said trans people will definitely be suicidal, self-harm or get anxiety, you'd think that'd show up on a psych evaluation.
Nice couple.