Prescribing hormones and puberty blockers to transgender children
Dear Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,
As part of research into presenting accurate date about the care of transgender children I would like to ask the following questions.
Yearly, since as far back as 2011/12:
How many patients, under 18, have been referred to endocrinology clinics from the Gender Identity and Development Service (GIDS)
If possible for each year:
How many patients have received prescriptions for GnHR (puberty blockers)?
How many patients have received prescriptions for cross-sex hormones?
And further, if at all possible, could each set of data be split between male and female?
Thank you.
I’ve sent this same request to UCLH as I believe prescribing is split between you and them.
Yours faithfully,
Eloise Freya
Dear Ms Freya
We acknowledge receipt of your e-mail requesting information from the Trust under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("the Act"). Please note that whilst the Trust strives to be open and is normally able to satisfy requests in full, the right of access is not absolute and we may therefore have to refuse queries, either in full or in part, on the basis of the exemptions (for example, in cases where disclosure would breach patient confidentiality, or put people in danger). All such decisions will be made, and fully justified, in accordance with the law.
We are required under the Act to respond to valid queries no later than the twentieth working day following receipt. Your request was received on 23/01/2020 , which means our deadline for response calculates to 20/02/2020. If we are able to respond to you sooner than this, we will do so.
Should you have any queries or concerns in the meantime, please contact us directly using the e-mail address below - quoting reference number 2020-0038
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Kind Regards,
Lorna
Dear Ms Freya
Please find attached herewith a response to your Freedom of Information
query.
Kind regards
Lorna
Dear informationgovernance (LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST),
Could I just confirm ... the abbreviation LGI on the response - does that refer to Leeds General Infirmary?
Thank you for the information
Yours sincerely,
Eloise Freya Speight
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