Nuffield Road Medical Centre
Address: Nuffield Road Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB4 1GL
Website: https://www.nrmc.nhs.uk/
Reception telephone: 01223 423424
Reception email:
Summary
9 reports in total.
7 most recent reports used to determine rating.
Rating: very negative
Questions answered
The answers to the following questions are based on the majority response from the people that answered them.
| Will this practice make GIC referrals? | (4 answers) | no | no:50% yes:50% sometimes:0% | |
| Does this practice offer shared care, including prescribing, with NHS-run GICs? | (5 answers) | no | no:60% sometimes:40% yes:0% | |
| Does this practice offer shared care, including prescribing, with private GICs? | (7 answers) | no | no:71% sometimes:14% yes:14% | |
| Does this practice offer bridging prescriptions? | (5 answers) | no | no:100% sometimes:0% yes:0% | |
| Will this practice update your name upon request? | (4 answers) | yes | yes:50% sometimes:25% no:25% | |
| Will this practice update your NHS gender marker upon request? | (3 answers) | yes | yes:67% no:33% sometimes:0% | |
| Does this practice perform routine blood sample monitoring for HRT (and blockers), even without a shared care agreement (e.g., for DIY)? | (7 answers) | no | no:100% sometimes:0% yes:0% | |
| Will this practice write a letter supporting a GRC application? | (2 answers) | inconclusive | ||
| Will this practice write a letter supporting a change of gender marker in British passports? | (1 answer) | inconclusive | ||
| Will this practice help to arrange fertility preservation? | (1 answer) | inconclusive | ||
| Will this practice administer prescribed HRT? | (4 answers) | no | no:50% yes:50% sometimes:0% |
Reports
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Rating: No rating providedReported Oct 2025
Although Nuffield Road Medical Centre says it provides Shared Care, it refused to engage in it with me in terms of prescribing my testosterone and giving me blood test. It is not possible to book a blood test with them for any reason unless their own doctors have asked for it. Before I went private, I asked to be referred to/put on a waiting list for gender affirming care, my doctor seemed hesitant but said they would send me the relevant information however they never did.
Rating: PositiveReported Oct 2025 (experienced around Oct 2025)
I have been with Nuffield Road for three years.
I came to Nuffield Road with a shared care agreement already in place between my previous GP and a private GIC. They agreed to uphold that agreement, including prescriptions and blood tests.
I was able to request a GRC report from them, although they initially wanted to defer report writing to the GIC. I have yet to hear back from the GRC panel so I don't know if this report has been accepted. The report cost £30 as it was deemed a non-NHS activity.
Generally my experience with Nuffield Road is that they will do what the GIC advises, but not much beyond that. For example, when there was a HRT shortage in 2022 they wouldn't prescribe me with alternative more readily available forms of HRT until they had a letter from the GIC advising they do so.
Rating: NeutralReported Oct 2025 (experienced around Oct 2025)
I moved to Cambridge over a year ago (around June 2024) and had already gotten most of the gender stuff sorted at my previous clinic. As such, I can't say how reliable some aspects of this clinic are.
Some GPs are very helpful. Some GPs are following the book to the letter and will not budge.
Practice did not like to provide blood tests without official documentation to outline which tests and how frequently.
Nurses there are happy with administering my anti-androgen (triptorelin) injections and I ask the nurse to reschedule the appointments in the future since appointments are a huge pain to book (you need to phone in the moment the practice opens and hope to get an appointment same day).- Rating: Negative
Reported Oct 2025 (experienced around Jun 2025)
I tried to request support from the GPs here between 09/2024 - 03/2025. The GP was happy to refer me to a GIC but didn't give me any options or recommendation on which clinic.
After starting private care I sought blood tests from this practice in 05/2025 to send to my private Endocrinologist. They refused citing that if I'm using private care then I would have to seek blood tests through that private care.
After first seeing my Endocrinologist in 06/2025, we reached out to pursue a shared care agreement and the Centre refused. I received a letter on behalf of their Trust which informed me that they wouldn't engage in any shared care with a patient using private healthcare services. - Rating: Negative
Reported Oct 2025 (experienced around Feb 2025)
Had my treatment recommendation letters from
GenderGP ignored and felt as though it was my fault that they wouldn’t provide me care, simply because I chose GenderGP as my private practitioner. Got told that “they don’t accept letters from GenderGP because GenderGP mistreats their patients and doesn’t take care of them”….. while actively being mistreated and not being taken care of by not approving my prescription or blood test requests - Rating: Neutral
Reported Oct 2025 (experienced around Feb 2025)
Have been at the practice for many years but only recently asked to get referred to a GIC. I made an appointment asking for a doctor who I personally knew was more safe, Dr [...].
I was referred to the GIC of my choosing immediately and we had a discussion about shared care with private practice.
Unfortunately my appointment was the day prior to their meeting on this topic and I was promised to be contacted on the result.
I was later told that that meeting with the practice manager ended in them choosing to decline any shared care with a private gender clinic of any kind.
I have not changed my name or gender marker but I did have to explain that I can change my title to Mx without a deed poll before they would change it.
I was declined any blood monitoring for DIY HRT without it coming from an NHS GIC.Notes from the moderator...
Names or descriptions of specific medical staff have been redacted from this report.
- Rating: Negative
Reported Aug 2025 (experienced around Nov 2024)
I signed up to this practice a few years ago because I saw somewhere online say that it was good for trans healthcare. Unfortunately I have not found that to be the case. Despite asking multiple times they would not do any blood tests for me (let alone shared care).
Moreover, [doctor name] misinterpreted some blood tests I had for an unrelated issue (fatigue) by using a reference range that didn't match my hormone profile (i.e., they interpreted my Haemoglobin using the male reference range of 130-180, not the female reference range of 115-165, despite me being on T blockers). This lead to a misdiagnosis of the cause of my fatigue.Notes from the moderator...
Names or descriptions of specific medical staff have been redacted from this report.
- Rating: No rating provided
Reported Aug 2025 (experienced around Nov 2024)
I also meant to add, they did:
- Update my name and title
- Write me a letter to get my gender marker in my passport changed (I think it cost about £30)
- Issue me a new NHS number with the correct gender marker (but didn't copy any of my medical records over). After that I left the practice.Notes from the moderator...
This appears to be an addendum to a previous post, but it is not possible to identify which one.
- Rating: Negative
Reported Oct 2025 (experienced around May 2022)
I returned to this GP after studying away from Cambridge - during that time I was registered with another GP, where that GP agreed to monitoring my hormones via regular tests and added my medications to my repeat prescription after receiving letters from my private GIC. This clinic however, after returning to Cambridge, ignored all my letters, my phone calls were met with "a doctor will call you back" where one never did, and all in-person appointments where I tried to raise the topic received the response of "I'm not qualified to talk about it" / the equivalent of "I don't know if we can offer that"