Justin Varney

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Dr Justin Varney is a doctor and public health expert.

On qualifying as a doctor he was advised not to become a GP because he was gay.[1]

He is a former co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD).[2]

In 2010 there was controversy over items he had written in a blog about his own sexual experiences.[3]

From 2006 to 2013 he was consultant in public health medecine at NHS Barking and Dagenham.

In 2010 there was controversy over items he had written in a blog about his own sexual experiences.[4]

In April 2013 he joined the national Health and Wellbeing Directorate of Public Health England.

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References

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7872511.stm
  2. http://web.archive.org/web/20120223010937/http://gladd.co.uk/page4.htm former GLADD website, as at February 2012, accessed via the Web Archive
  3. http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/08/28/nhs-sex-health-consultant-banned-from-work-over-explicit-blog-102039-22520952/
  4. http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/08/28/nhs-sex-health-consultant-banned-from-work-over-explicit-blog-102039-22520952/