Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

Our Reference: HS/FOI/44937

4 October 2021

Cleo Madeleine

GenderGP

[1][FOI #789601 email]

Dear Miss Madeleine

Request for Information

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act requests, as received on 7
September 2021. For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS
Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the
country.  We have nearly 17,000 staff working across our three hospitals,
the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester General
Hospital, serving the 1.2 million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire
and Rutland, and a further two to three million people from the rest of
the UK who come to us for specialist treatment.  Excluding Alliance
activity, during 2019/20 we treated 1,483,800 patients – that’s 4,054
patients each day.

Following consultation with colleagues from the Trust’s Equality,
Inclusion, and Diversity Team, I confirm that the University Hospitals of
Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request.  Your
request is set out below, followed by the Trust’s response.

We're writing regarding the policies, protocols, and guidelines operated
by each NHS Trust in relation to the care of transgender people. We're
aware that NHS England Specialised Commissioning is responsible for
commissioning specialist gender identity services in England. However,
we're interested in what guidelines are in place for the provision of
transgender healthcare at primary and secondary care levels.

With this in mind, could you please provide the following:

1) Any equality and/or diversity policies you have in place for patients.

2) Any equality and/or diversity policies you have in place for staff.

3) Any guidelines, protocols, policies, or similar relating to care
provision for transgender adults.

4) Any guidelines, protocols, policies, or similar relating to care
provision for transgender children and adolescents.

5) Any guidelines, etc. relating to mental capacity and/or informed
consent.

6) Any guidelines, etc. relating to shared care agreements and/or working
with private services to facilitate treatment, particularly with regards
to transgender healthcare.  

Policies specific to transgender patients or staff are attached, in
addition to the Trust’s strategic plan for EDI.  All of the Trust’s
policies and guidelines (including the attached policies ) are available
on our external website at:
[2]https://secure.library.leicestershospita...
The EDI strategeic plan is also on our external website at: [3]Equality
reports and data (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk) 

I hope that this response is helpful.  If you require any further
assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.  If you are dissatisfied
with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and
Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom
of Information Act complaints procedure.

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2015.  Accordingly you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in
writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together
with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the
information is to be re-used.

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 1113, website: [4]www.ico.org.uk 

Yours sincerely,

Helen Stokes

Corporate and Committee Services Manager

Belgrave House, Leicester General Hospital site

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Tel: 0116 258 8590

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