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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
below our response:

The GIDS closed at the end of March 2024. The Trust did not hold data on
those patients who had been prescribed puberty blockers, as the GIDS teams
did not prescribe blockers. GIDS teams referred patients to the
Endocrinology team at UCLH and Leeds General Infirmary who assessed their
suitability for hormone blockers or cross sex hormones.

If assessed to be appropriate for the patient, the endocrinologist would
write to the patient’s GP recommending that they prescribe hormone therapy
for the patient, but the Trust did not routinely receive information that
patients received these prescriptions, nor whether they were taking and
continuing to take them.

We do not hold records of those patients who were privately subscribed
puberty blockers, or who might have received them from different agencies
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From: Leo Pritchard <[3][FOI #1218550 email]>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2024 1:17 AM
To: Freedom of Information Requests <[4][Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Use of puberty blockers in GIDS
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 use of puberty
blockers in the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) over time:

For each financial year in which data are held, please provide:
1. The number and percentage of GIDS patients who were prescribed puberty
blockers from within the NHS.
2. The number and percentage of GIDS patients who were taking puberty
blockers obtained outside the NHS (e.g. privately).
3. The number and percentage of GIDS patients who were not taking puberty
blockers.

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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