Group to consider setting up national circumcision service
The Department of Health’s chief medical officer Dr Jim Kiely is to chair the group, which will examine all matters regarding circumcision. The group will also include representatives from health boards, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and ethnic-minority communities.
“The group will look at things like the need to have a standardised service, as well as when it is best to carry it [circumcision] out. They will look at international best practice and will try to come up with standardised guidelines,” a department spokesman said.
