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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:

please provide the following information regarding the number of patients
on the waiting list for the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS)
over time:

 1. As far back as records are held, please provide the number of patients
on the waiting list for their first GIDS appointment at a regular
point within each financial quarter.
 2. Please provide these data for each individual GIDS clinic separately
and for the service as a whole (GIDS-wide).
 3. Please provide these data separately for patients assigned male at
birth and those assigned female at birth, and in combination
regardless of sex assigned at birth, at both the GIDS-wide and
individual clinic level.

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 Waiting List Annually, by Financial Year Quarters

Financial Year Quarter AFAB AMAB Gender Not Total
Stated
2001/02 Q1 0 0 0 0
Q2 0 0 0 <5
Q3 0 <5 0 <5
Q4 0 <5 0 <5
2002/03 Q1 0 <5 0 <5
Q2 <5 <5 0 <5
Q3 <5 <5 0 <5
Q4 <5 <5 <5 5
2003/04 Q1 <5 <5 <5 7
Q2 <5 <5 <5 7
Q3 <5 <5 <5 7
Q4 <5 <5 <5 8
2004/05 Q1 <5 <5 <5 10
Q2 <5 <5 8 13
Q3 <5 <5 8 13
Q4 <5 <5 8 13
2005/06 Q1 <5 <5 8 13
Q2 <5 <5 10 15
Q3 <5 <5 11 17
Q4 <5 <5 11 18
2006/07 Q1 <5 5 10 18
Q2 <5 5 11 <5+16
Q3 <5 5 15 <5+20
Q4 6 <5 16 <5+22
2007/08 Q1 9 5 21 35
Q2 8 4 23 35
Q3 11 6 25 42
Q4 18 11 27 56
2008/09 Q1 21 9 27 57
Q2 23 14 34 71
Q3 24 18 37 79
Q4 27 23 42 92
2009/2010 Q1 30 27 43 100
Q2 36 42 44 122
Q3 45 53 45 143
Q4 59 60 46 165
2010/2011 Q1 69 77 46 192
Q2 88 94 46 228
Q3 49 73 38 160
Q4 39 51 23 113
2011/2012 Q1 40 51 19 110
Q2 37 47 15 99
Q3 43 36 17 96
Q4 35 42 18 95
2012/2013 Q1 47 47 16 110
Q2 57 47 8 112
Q3 77 47 13 137
Q4 68 46 9 123
2013/2014 Q1 92 72 8 172
Q2 101 69 10 180
Q3 111 71 7 189
Q4 104 72 <5 <5+176
2014/2015 Q1 109 122 <5 <5+231
Q2 149 95 <5 246
Q3 143 99 0 242
Q4 164 96 0 260
2015/2016 Q1 252 130 0 382
Q2 292 172 0 464
Q3 389 205 0 594
Q4 521 262 0 783
2016/2017 Q1 700 362 0 1062
Q2 857 396 0 1253
Q3 887 384 <5 <5+1271
Q4 878 376 <5 <5+1254
2017/2018 Q1 1038 440 <5 <5+1478
Q2 1311 536 <5 <5+1847
Q3 1562 604 <5 <5+2166
Q4 1716 634 <5 <5+2350
2018/2019 Q1 1893 654 6 2553
Q2 2137 747 8 2892
Q3 2422 820 9 3251
Q4 2622 866 13 3501
2019/2020 Q1 2921 953 11 3885
Q2 3094 1026 13 4133
Q3 3281 1073 91 4445
Q4 3398 1149 98 4645
2020/2021 Q1 3345 1135 108 4588
Q2 3415 1188 138 4741
Q3 3560 1320 183 5063
Q4 3721 1406 211 5338
2021/2022 Q1 3847 1523 244 5614
Q2 3803 1513 242 5558
Q3 3669 1474 250 5393
Q4 3555 1391 247 5193
2022/2023 Q1 3442 1342 235 5019
Q2 3375 1322 231 4928
Q3 3274 1263 221 4758
Q4 764 291 38 1093
2023/2024 Q1 308 128 14 450
Q2 38 27 <5 <5+65
Q3 0 <5 <5 <5
Q4 0 <5 0 <5

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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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team,

Tavistock and Portman
NHS Foundation Trust
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From: Leo Pritchard
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 10:01 PM
To: Freedom of Information Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Size of GIDS waiting list 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
patients on the waiting list for the Gender Identity Development Service
(GIDS) over time:

As far back as records are held, please provide the number of patients on
the waiting list for their first GIDS appointment at a regular point
within each financial quarter.

Please provide these data for each individual GIDS clinic separately and
for the service as a whole (GIDS-wide). Please provide these data
separately for patients assigned male at birth and those assigned female
at birth, and in combination regardless of sex assigned at birth, at both
the GIDS-wide and individual clinic level.

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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