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Dear Leo

Your request for information, as detailed in your email below, has been
handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please find
attached our response, as a csv file, which has also been pasted below in
text format, for our own ease of reference.

Your Questions:

1.      Please provide the number of referrals received by GIDS in each
financial year in which data are held

2.      Please provide these data for each GIDS clinic separately and in
combination for the service as a whole.

3.      For both the whole service and within each clinic, please provide
the number of referrals for patients assigned male at birth and those
assigned female at birth.

Explanatory Notes about our response:

 A. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust did not hold data by
GIDS clinic location, as the GIDS did not differentiate its data by
clinic location. GIDS service provision was nationwide and managed as
one service with one waiting list. Individual clinicians would cover
several GIDS clinic locations
 B. The Trust holds GIDS Referral and GIDS Waiting List data from
Financial Year 2001/02 to 2022/23, with the following *exceptions:

•    From July 2021: GIDS referrals from General Practitioners and other
non-CAMHS/paediatric referrers were handled by Arden and GEM CSU on behalf
of NHS England

•    From October 2022 all new referrals from any referrer were redirected
to Arden & GEM CSU.

•    From 23 March 2023, The whole GIDS waiting list and all new referrals
were managed by Arden and GEM. GIDS no longer held or managed the waiting
list for GIDS, the Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Services.

•    NHSE/I are now the data controllers for the AGEM Referral Hub. Should
you wish to contact them directly to learn more about the
referrals/waiting list that they hold, the relevant email address is
[1][email address]

 C. We note your request that the data be provided in Excel format,
however it has been provided as a csv file, in line with guidance
issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office in order to mitigate
risk to personal information. This Trust no longer provides data as
excel spreadsheets/workbooks.
 D. You will appreciate that this data involves low numbers, i.e. equal to
or less than five. Were we to disclose the data requested it could
potentially lead to identification or re-identification of the
individual(s) concerned. Although the month and year alone are not
personal data, we have also to consider whether other information that
is already available, or may become available, to any member of the
public, could be combined with the data requested so as to enable
identification of the individual(s) concerned. We are, therefore,
withholding this information under S.40(2) Personal Information and
showing these low numbers as <5.

Section 40 is an absolute exemption under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, and does not require us to carry out the public interest test.

* GIDS Referrals Annually, by Financial Year

Financial Year AFAB AMAB Not stated Total
2001/02 0 <5 0 <5
2002/03 <5 <5 <5 <5
2003/04 0 0 <5 <5
2004/05 0 <5 <5 <5
2005/06 <5 0 <5 6
2006/07 3 2 6 11
2007/08 11 <5 10
2008/09 13 15 17 45
2009/10 32 42 <5 <5+74
2010/11 59 76 <5 <5+135
2011/12 111 90 9 210
2012/13 176 118 17 311
2013/14 269 193 9 471
2014/15 427 264 0 691
2015/16 931 478 0 1409
2016/17 1379 602 <5 <5+1999
2017/18 1848 716 <5 <5+2564
2018/19 1999 735 19 2753
2019/20 1915 730 101 2746
2020/21 1533 716 152 2401
2021/22 1987 875 724 3586
2022/23 475 219 349 1043

Please note that information provided under FOIA relates to information
held by this Trust at the date on which the request was made.

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dissatisfied then please write to us at [2][Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust request email] within 40 working days, quoting the
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not previously involved in this case, to conduct an internal review of our
original response and advise you of their findings, within 20 working
days, which would include either a revised response, or a rationale for
upholding the original response.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team,

Tavistock and Portman
NHS Foundation Trust
Tavistock Centre
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From: Leo Pritchard <[4][FOI #1217061 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:55 PM
To: Freedom of Information Requests <[5][Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Number of GIDS referrals over
time

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, that
you please provide the following information regarding the number of GIDS
referrals over time:

Please provide the number of referrals received by GIDS in each financial
year in which data are held. Please provide these data for each GIDS
clinic separately and in combination for the service as a whole. For both
the whole service and within each clinic, please provide the number of
referrals for patients assigned male at birth and those assigned female at
birth, and those two counts added for the total number of patients
referred regardless of sex assigned at birth.

Please provide these data in a spreadsheet file to make it easier to
analyse them. Thank you very much for your time and help.

Yours sincerely,
Leo Pritchard

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