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Dear Ms Freya

Further to your recent email below, we appreciate that you are eager to
receive a reply to your request for information under FOIA.  Having made
enquiries on your behalf, I can advise that this is currently receiving
our attention, but it is not yet ready to send out.

We do expect to be in a position to respond shortly, and I have conveyed
to the team that you have already contacted us in this regard. Please note
the above reference number, in the header, which has been allocated to
your enquiry for any future correspondence.

With kind regards,

Sandy Benson

Freedom of Information Officer

Tavistock and Portman
NHS Foundation Trust
Tavistock Centre
120 Belsize Lane
London NW3 5BA
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From: Eloise Freya
Sent: 20 February 2020 10:57
To: Freedom of Information Requests
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Patient numbers and outcomes
at GIDS

Dear Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust,

I'm writing to request an update on the Freedom of Information request I
filed on 7th January 2020.

Under the FoI law, a response should have been received within 20 days -
that deadline ended on 4th February 2020. It's now the 20th February, 12
(working) days past that deadline.

If no response is received by 28th February (a week on Friday) I will be
passing my complaint to the Information Commissioner.

Yours faithfully,

Eloise Freya Speight

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Dear Ms Freya

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Your request for information, as detailed in your email below, has been
considered in line with the requirements of the FOI Act 2000, and the
information requested is as follows:

1.      Number of patients currently on the waiting list.

As of 31^st December 2019 there were 4220 patients on the GIDS waiting
list.

2.       Number of patients currently receiving psychological therapy only
(no medication prescribed)

We confirm that this information is held by the Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust, but that the cost of collating the data would exceed the
appropriate limit that is provided within the Freedom of Information Act
2000. The Trust is therefore not obliged to respond to this question and
so will not be processing it further. Please see below for more
information about the costing of answering your request.

·         The data is held within individual patient files.

·         We cannot automate its collation, as the patient records system
we use does not have a dedicated field for this data.

·         We estimate that it will take 20 minutes per patient file to
identify and extract the data for collation into a report.

·         To search the thousands of patient files necessary to supply an
answer would therefore take at least 500 hours of staff time.

·         Section 12 of the freedom of information act allows a public
authority to refuse to deal with a request where it estimates that it
would exceed the appropriate limit to comply with the request. The
appropriate limit in the NHS is currently £450 or 18 hours of staff work
at the standard rate of £25 per hour.

If you wish to narrow the scope of your request, then we will treat any
new question as a fresh FOI request, and we may be able to help you.

3.       Number of patients currently prescribed puberty blocker
medication

We confirm that this information is held by the Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust, but that the cost of collating the data would exceed the
appropriate limit that is provided within the Freedom of Information Act
2000. The Trust is therefore not obliged to respond to this question and
so will not be processing it further. Please see below for more
information about the costing of answering your request.

·         The data is held within individual patient files.

·         We cannot automate its collation, as the patient records system
we use does not have a dedicated field for this data.

·         We estimate that it will take 20 minutes per patient file to
identify and extract the data for collation into a report.

·         To search the thousands of patient files necessary to supply an
answer would therefore take at least 500 hours of staff time.

·         Section 12 of the freedom of information act allows a public
authority to refuse to deal with a request where it estimates that it
would exceed the appropriate limit to comply with the request. The
appropriate limit in the NHS is currently £450 or 18 hours of staff work
at the standard rate of £25 per hour.

If you wish to narrow the scope of your request, then we will treat any
new question as a fresh FOI request, and we may be able to help you.

4.       Number of patients currently prescribed cross sex hormones

We confirm that this information is held by the Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust, but that the cost of collating the data would exceed the
appropriate limit that is provided within the Freedom of Information Act
2000. The Trust is therefore not obliged to respond to this question and
so will not be processing it further. Please see below for more
information about the costing of answering your request.

·         The data is held within individual patient files.

·         We cannot automate its collation, as the patient records system
we use does not have a dedicated field for this data.

·         We estimate that it will take 20 minutes per patient file to
identify and extract the data for collation into a report.

·         To search the thousands of patient files necessary to supply an
answer would therefore take at least 500 hours of staff time.

·         Section 12 of the freedom of information act allows a public
authority to refuse to deal with a request where it estimates that it
would exceed the appropriate limit to comply with the request. The
appropriate limit in the NHS is currently £450 or 18 hours of staff work
at the standard rate of £25 per hour.

If you wish to narrow the scope of your request, then we will treat any
new question as a fresh FOI request, and we may be able to help you.

5.       Number of patients discharged from the service

Patients discharged from the GIDS service by financial year can be found
below.

  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Discharge 22 76 88 170 373 329 612 1043 1424
numbers

6.       Could you also indicate the current expected waiting time to
first appointment for someone added to the waiting list?

Expected Waiting Times are difficult for us to accurately estimate,
however we provide guidance on our website:
[1]https://gids.nhs.uk/about-us

Please note that information provided under FOI is information held by
this Trust at the date on which the request was made.  If you wish to
discuss any of the above, then please contact me, quoting the reference
details in the subject header of this email.

I trust that you are satisfied with this response.  If you are
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Yours sincerely,

Sandy Benson

Freedom of Information Officer

Tavistock and Portman 
NHS Foundation Trust
Tavistock Centre 
120 Belsize Lane
London NW3 5BA
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From: Eloise Freya <[FOI #632190 email]>
Sent: 07 January 2020 10:24
To: Freedom of Information Requests <[Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Patient numbers and outcomes at
GIDS

Dear Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust,

Please could you make available the following information for (as far back
as possible to) 2009-10 to the current year (2018-19)

* number of patients currently on the waiting list.
* number of patients currently receiving psychological therapy only (no
medication prescribed)
* number of patients currently prescribed puberty blocker medication
* number of patients currently prescribed cross sex hormones
* number of patients discharged from the service

Could you also indicate the current expected waiting time to first
appointment for someone added to the waiting list?

If you can't provide the complete data; the important thing (I'm trying to
challenge the narrative that puberty blockers and hormones are given out
too easily) would be the number of patients currently prescribed blockers
and hormones - a simple figure might be the number of patients who have
seen an endocrinologist in the year.

Yours faithfully,

Eloise Freya

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