GIC budget breakdown 2015-25
Reference: 24-25534
Date response sent: 18/03/2025
Details of enquiry
- please provide the following information, for the years 2015 until 2025, regarding the overall budget for the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Clinic.
- And how this budget is allocated, but not limited, to the following categories:
- administration
- clinic staff
- each surgery offered, and referred, by the clinic. For example bilateral breast removal, chest reconstruction, phalloplasty, hysterectomy, salpingo-oophorectomy, orchidectomy, penectomy, vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty, clitoroplasty
- prescriptions
- hair removal
Response sent
Some of the information you have requested has been previously provided to other applicants, and is publicly available on our website. We have provided links below to this data and have provided new data for financial year 2024/25 to January 2025.
Section 21(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, exempts disclosure of information that is reasonably accessible by other means, and the terms of the exemption mean that we do not have to consider whether or not it would be in the public interest to re-provide information which is readily available for public review.
Prior to FY 2017/18
The Trust does not hold data prior to 1 April 2017, ie financial year 2017/18, which was before the GIC service transferred from the West London NHS Mental Health Trust to the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
You may wish to request pre 2017/18 data on the GIC via a separate request to the service’s previous host – West London Mental Health Trust (WLMHT). Their Freedom of Information Team can be reached via foi@wlmht.nhs.uk
- please provide the following information, for the years 2015 until 2025, regarding the overall budget for the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Clinic.
| GIC Annual Budget | |
| Financial Year | Budget |
| 2017/18 | £3,841,387 |
| 2018/19 | £4,504,257 |
| 2019/20 | £4,810,363 |
| 2020/21 | £5,922,839 |
| 2021/22 | £5,952,453 |
| 2022/23 | £6,749,000 |
| 2023/24 | £7,015,683 |
| 2024/25 | £7,686,680 |
- And how this budget is allocated, but not limited, to the following categories:
- For Financial Years 2017/18 to 2022/23 please click on below link to a previous response:
23-24208-GIC-Referrals_Appts_Budgets_Staff_-2017-18
(See Questions numbered 15 and 16),
- For Financial Year 2023/24 please click on below link:
24-25114 gic-referrals-appts-budgets-staffing-2023-24/
(See Questions 13 to 20):
- For Financial Years 2024/25 April 2024 to January 2025 only
The number of admin and clinical/diagnostic staff
| Financial Year | Admin WTE | Clinical WTE | Total WTE | Honorary
Clinicians WTE |
| 2024/25 to Jan ‘25 | 29 WTE | 11 WTE Diagnostic
18.4 WTE Non Diagnostic |
58.4 WTE | 1.0 |
- Services Not Provided
- Prescriptions: The GIC does not issue prescriptions. The endocrinologists send prescription recommendations to the patients’ GPs
- Hair Removal: The Trust does not provide a hair removal service. Clinicians refer patients to the NHSE surgical hub for hair removal treatments.
- Surgery: The Trust does not provide perform any surgical procedures and most referrals go to Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service, or otherwise to the patient’s GP, eg for hysterectomy.