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Dear Jeni

 

Your request for information, as detailed in your email below, has been
handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).  Please find
below our response:  

 

Please could you provide, subject to any necessary redactions to omit
personal information that is not pertinent:

1.      Copies of any public involvement policies relevant to The
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Clinic and/or
Terms of Reference for any patient forums, advisory groups or similar run
by the Clinic.

Please see attachment “1. PPI Presentation Materials” which contains
documentation listed as follows:

File 1 PPI Presentation Materials

a)     GIDS PPI Overview March 2022

b)     GIDS Stakeholders: What matters to us (Apr-Oct 2021)

c)     Who are we and how shall we work together?” April 2022

d)     GIDS Interim Service Specification November 2022

e)     Team GIDS Overview of NHSE Proposed Service Specification

f)       GIDS PPI Working Group ToR,

2.      A list of any public involvement activities carried out by the
Clinic or the Trust about the Cass Review.

·       Please see items a) and f) as listed above in our response to Q1.

·       Please also see attachment “2. GIDS Stakeholder Group Minutes”
which contains documentation listed as follows:

File 2 GIDS Stakeholder Group Minutes

a)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 04/06/21

b)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 04/06/21 (GIDS Referrals Criteria)

c)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 26/07/21

d)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 01.02.22

e)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 15/03/22

f)       GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 06/06/22

g)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 01/08/22

h)     GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 02/10/23

i)       GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 27/11/23

j)       Att23 GIDS Stakeholders Group Mins 26/04/24

3.      Copies of any presentations or documentation used by the Clinic or
the Trust for public involvement about the Cass Review.

Please see our response to Q1 above

4.      Minutes or other records of the outcome of such public involvement
about the Cass Review.

Please see attachment “3 Team GIDS Meeting Notes” which contains
documentation listed as follows:

File 3 Team GIDS Meeting Notes

a)     Team GIDS meeting Notes 07/11/22

b)     Team GIDS meeting Presented 14/11/22

c)     Proposed Service Spec (see presentations section above)

d)     Team GIDS meeting Notes 06/02/23

e)     Team GIDS meeting Notes 20/03/23

f)       Team GIDS meeting Notes 24/04/23

g)     Team GIDS meeting Notes 22/01/24

h)     Team GIDS FINAL meeting Notes 05/03/24

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

Freedom of Information Team,

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NHS Foundation Trust
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From: Jeni Tennison <[FOI #1144785 email]>
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 10:15 AM
To: Freedom of Information Requests <[Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Public consultation re Cass
Review Quantitative Research

 

 

Dear Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust,

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

The Cass Review Final Report [1] describes objections from Gender
Dysphoria Clinics about supplying data for the Quantitative Research (aka
Data Linkage Study) being carried out by the University of York.

I want to understand the degree to which the Gender Dysphoria Clinic
decisions around providing access to data were made with public / patient
/ community involvement.

Please could you provide, subject to any necessary redactions to omit
personal information that is not pertinent:

1. Copies of any public involvement policies relevant to The Tavistock and
Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Clinic and/or Terms of
Reference for any patient forums, advisory groups or similar run by the
Clinic.

2. A list of any public involvement activities carried out by the Clinic
or the Trust about the Cass Review.

3. Copies of any presentations or documentation used by the Clinic or the
Trust for public involvement about the Cass Review.

4. Minutes or other records of the outcome of such public involvement
about the Cass Review.

Please can you share this information as soon as possible and no later
than the end of the statutorily-prescribed timeframe of 20 working days.

Yours faithfully,

Jeni Tennison

[1] [3]https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/...

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Dear Jeni

 

Your notification that we have supplied information on the wrong
department (children and young people’s gender service GIDS) and that your
request was for information for the adults gender service (GIC) has been
handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). We apologise for
any misunderstanding on our part. Please find below our revised response:

 

Your original questions were as follows:

 1. Copies of any public involvement policies relevant to The Tavistock
and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Clinic

 a. and/or Terms of Reference for any patient forums, advisory groups or
similar run by the Clinic.

 2. A list of any public involvement activities carried out by the Clinic
or the Trust about the Cass Review.
 3. Copies of any presentations or documentation used by the Clinic or the
Trust for public involvement about the Cass Review.
 4. Minutes or other records of the outcome of such public involvement
about the Cass Review.

 

The Trust’s revised response to the above questions is as follows:

 

Question 1:

The Trust does not have any policies on Public Involvement.

The Trust’s adults gender service (GIC) has not engaged in public
involvement activities.

 

Questions 2-5:

In your questions 2, 3, 4, 5 you asked about activities by the Trust or
GIC (the adult gender service), undertaken/provided in relation to the
Cass Review.

 

The Trust’s response is to confirm that it has undertaken a wide variety
of activities in relation to the publication of the Cass Review, - all
undertaken and centred on the children and young people’s gender service
GIDS, who are the subject of the Cass Review.

 

It is important to note here that the Cass Review was commissioned by NHS
England as an independent review of gender identity services for children
and young people and did not centre on adults gender services.

 

The Trust confirms that our GIC service did not specifically host any
public involvement type activities related to the Cass review.

 

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

 

We trust that you are satisfied with this response. If you are
dissatisfied then please write to us at [1][Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust request email] within
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revised response, or a rationale for upholding the original response.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Freedom of Information Team,

Tavistock and Portman
NHS Foundation Trust
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From: Jeni Tennison <[3][FOI #1144785 email]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2024 9:17 AM
To: Freedom of Information Requests <[4][Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust request email]>
Subject: Re: 24-25145 Public Involvement Policies/ToR & Mins/Presentations
re CassReview, (JT)

 

 

Dear Freedom of Information Team,

Thank you very much for your response with information about public and
patient involvement (PPI) activities within GIDS, which is very
informative.

However, my request actually concerned your *adult* gender identity clinic
([5]https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/servi...)
rather than GIDS.

Please could you respond to my requests (copied again below) with respect
to your *adult* GIC, or confirm that the material you've sent through
already is the only relevant material held by the Trust, ie that the adult
GIC does not carry out public involvement activities.

1. Copies of any public involvement policies relevant to The Tavistock and
Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Clinic and/or Terms of
Reference for any patient forums, advisory groups or similar run by the
Clinic.

2. A list of any public involvement activities carried out by the Clinic
or the Trust about the Cass Review.

3. Copies of any presentations or documentation used by the Clinic or the
Trust for public involvement about the Cass Review.

4. Minutes or other records of the outcome of such public involvement
about the Cass Review.

Thank you very much for your help,

Jeni Tennison

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