Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies
Dear Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust,
Please provide:
1) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to staff
2) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to patients
3) Related Equality Impact Assessments if separate
4) Policies on mixed sex and/or same sex accommodation
As this is a simple request for guidance and policies which requires no email search or redaction, I look forward to a swift response and remind you of your obligation to respond promptly under FOIA section 10(1). 20 days is a long stop for responses, not the deadline.
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Yours faithfully,
Ermine Amies
Date: 01/07/2024
Reference: FOIRQ8328
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From: Ermine Amies <[FOI #1142931 email]>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2024 3:56 PM
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Subject: [External Email] Freedom of Information request - Gender
reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies
Dear Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust,
Please provide:
1) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating
to staff
2) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating
to patients
3) Related Equality Impact Assessments if separate
4) Policies on mixed sex and/or same sex accommodation
As this is a simple request for guidance and policies which requires no
email search or redaction, I look forward to a swift response and remind
you of your obligation to respond promptly under FOIA section 10(1). 20
days is a long stop for responses, not the deadline.
See ICO guidance
[2]https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi...
Yours faithfully,
Ermine Amies
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This request, which requires no email search or redaction, is 5 working days overdue.
Yours,
Ermine Amies
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From: Ermine Amies <[FOI #1142931 email]>
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2024 3:53 PM
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Subject: [External Email] Re: FOIRQ8328 - Acknowledgement - Gender
reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies
Dear FOI Team,
This request, which requires no email search or redaction, is 5 working
days overdue.
Yours,
Ermine Amies
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Trust response:
1. Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance is referenced within several Trust policies, for
example:
The term ‘gender reassignment’ and/or ‘transgender’ is referenced in the following Trust policies:
Dignity at work policy – ‘Attachment One’
Flexible working policy - ‘Attachment Two’
Meeting the equality duty in policy and decision making policy - ‘Attachment Three’
Prevent policy - ‘Attachment Four’
Organisational change policy - ‘Attachment Five’
The Trust do not have specific policies relating to gender reassignment and/or transgender for staff.
In compliance with Section.40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, staff names are withheld because
it contains personal data that belong specifically to living individuals. Therefore, there is a reasonable
expectation for the Trust to not disclose this publicly and maintain its duty of confidentiality under the Data
Protection Act 2018.
2. The NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service London follows NHS England’s policy on puberty
suppressing hormones NHS England » Clinical policy: puberty suppressing hormones and gender affirming
hormones NHS commissioning » Gender Services Clinical Programme (england.nhs.uk).
See further information at the following links New specialist gender service starts | Great Ormond Street
Hospital (gosh.nhs.uk) and The NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (London) | Great Ormond
1
Street Hospital (gosh.nhs.uk).
3. The completed Equality Impact Assessments are contained within each of the respective policies.
4. Please see ‘Attachment Six’.