Wait times for gender identity services
Dear Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),
As a Freedom of Information request, please provide the following regarding wait times for gender identity services provided by your trust (which may be known as your Gender Identity Clinic / Gender Identity Service / Gender Service / Gender Dysphoria Service, or similar.)
1) Annual data
For each year from 2014 onwards (or, if 2014 is not available, from the most recent year available), please provide:
-The number of people who received a referral for a first appointment
-The number of people who were offered a first appointment
-The average (mean) wait in weeks for a first appointment
-The longest wait in weeks a patient waited for a first appointment.
-The number of people who received a second appointment
-The average (mean) wait in weeks for a second appointment
-The longest wait in weeks a patient waited for a second appointment
Additionally, for each month for which there is data available between Jan 2014 and the most current date available at the point of production, please provide:
2) First appointments
-The number of people waiting for a first appointment
-The number of people offered a first appointment
-Of the people who are being offered a first appointment, the month and year in which they were referred.
-If available, the average (mean) time in weeks from referral to first appointment.
-If available, the longest wait time for a first appointment
3) Second appointments
-The number of people who have received a first appointment and are waiting for a second one
-The number of people offered a second appointment
-If available, of the patients who are being offered a second appointment, the month in which they were initially referred.
-If available, the average (mean) time in weeks from referral to second appointment.
4) Overview
-The number of new referrals received
-The number of people currently waiting for some type of treatment or appointment
-The number of people who complete treatment
Please provide such data electronically, ideally as a spreadsheet.
Yours faithfully,
Jonathan Fagg
Dear Jonathan
FOI REQUEST RE: WAIT TIMES FOR GENDER IDENTITY SERVICES
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 January 2024
which we are dealing with under the terms of the Freedom of Information
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Good afternoon Jonathan,
I refer to your request for information received on 8 January 2023, which
we are dealing with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
In order to process your request, we require further clarification to
enable us to identify and locate the information that you have asked for.
We would ask that you clarify the following:
· Are the figures you require for both the adult and the
children’s gender identity services?
Your request will be placed on hold until sufficient clarification is
provided to locate the information you require. If we do not receive a
response from you within 20 working days of this email, your request will
be considered to have lapsed, as, under Section 1(3) of the Freedom of
Information Act a public authority need not comply with a request unless
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supplied.
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hesitate to contact us.
Thanks,
Hayley
Hayley Kerr
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Dear PublicLiaison-SM,
Thank you. Yes, please provide seperate figures for the adult and children's gender identity services.
Yours sincerely,
Jonathan Fagg
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for the clarification. We'll come back to you as soon as
possible.
Best wishes,
Hayley
Hayley Kerr
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Care Trust
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Good morning Jonathan,
I refer to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on 8 January
2024.
Our response is now attached for your information. Please accept our
sincere apologies for the delay in providing this response.
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your Freedom of Information
(FOI) request has been handled you may wish to complain. You should
contact Public Liaison Services, Nore Villa, Knockbracken Health Care
Park, Saintfield Road, Belfast, BT8 8BH or alternatively e-mail: [1][email
address] within two months of the date of this response and your complaint
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Many thanks,
Hayley
Hayley Kerr
Public Liaison Officer, Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health and Social
Care Trust
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Direct Tel: 028 9504 9597
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