The Clinic review - an admirably unsensational look at one of the NHS's most controversial institutions

The Tavistock centre's gender identity service has been embroiled in court cases and criticism. This balanced look at its closure talks to those it helped - and those it failed "How did you go bankrupt?" a character is asked in Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises. "Two ways," he replies. "Gradually, then suddenly." So it is with medical scandals, too. Disquiet builds and eventually, suddenly - often when someone goes to the press - a reckoning falls. The Clinic traces the rise and fall of the T...