Gender Deaths Data, Corres & Working Group Setting Up

Reference: 24-25130

Date response sent: 22/07/2024

Details of enquiry

The Good Law Project claim to have been in touch with you regarding the fact that in the seven years before the Bell High Court decision (on 1 December 2020) there was one death of a young trans person on the GIDS waiting list but in the three years afterwards sixteen deaths.

1. Please can you provide all internal correspondence that took place regarding the contact the Good Law Project made with your trust.
2. The Good Law Project claim these figures came from a presentation to Tavistock staff given by the Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children. Please can you provide a copy of this presentation.
3. They also claim that they have seen emails were sent to the post-holder expressing concerns about those numbers and that after much chasing they promise to set up a working group. Please can you provide details of any working groups setup regarding suicides and other safety incidents of those on the GIDS waiting list.

Response sent

The Good Law Project claim to have been in touch with you regarding the fact that in the seven years before the Bell High Court decision (on 1 December 2020) there was one death of a young trans person on the GIDS waiting list but in the three years afterwards sixteen deaths.

1. Please can you provide all internal correspondence that took place regarding the contact the Good Law Project made with your trust.

This is provided as attachments 1-6.

1. Att1: 4-5 June 2024:  Good Law Project (GLP) to Media Office, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (TPNHSFT).  Email exchanges
2. Att2: 18 June 2024:  GLP to Caroline McKenna (TPNHSFT)  Recipient email to colleagues
3. Att3: 24 June 2024:  New York Sun reporter to Media Office TPNHSFT seeking comments
4. Att4: 19 June 2024:  Advance notice of publication of a testimony from a Trust whistleblower
5. Att5: 18 June 2024TPNHSFT sending copy of GLP’s advance notice of testimony publication.
6. Att6: 25 June 2024:  Internal email from Media team to Freedom of Information (FOI) team.

2. The Good Law Project claim these figures came from a presentation to Tavistock staff given by the Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children. Please can you provide a copy of this presentation.

This is provided as Attachment 7.

3. They also claim that they have seen emails were sent to the post-holder expressing concerns about those numbers and that after much chasing they promise to set up a working group. Please can you provide details of any working groups setup regarding suicides and other safety incidents of those on the GIDS waiting list.

No such working group was set up, therefore the Trust does not hold data on setting up working groups regarding suicides and other safety incidents for those on the waiting list.