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GIC Waiting Times and First/Second Appointments

Reference: 23-24412

Date response sent: 05/02/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. How many people were on the waiting list for a first appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2023?
  2. How many people were seen from January 1st 2023 to December 31st 2023 for their first appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?
  3. How many people were on the waiting list for a first appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2018?
  4. How many people were seen from January 1st 2018 to December 31st 2018 for their first appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?
  5. How many people were on the waiting list for a second appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2023?
  6. How many people were seen from January 1st 2023 to December 31st 2023 for their second appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?
  7. How many people were on the waiting list for a second appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2018?
  8. How many people were seen from January 1st 2018 to December 31st 2018 for their second appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?
  9. How many people were employed in clinical roles at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2023?
  10. How many people were employed in clinical roles at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2018?
  11. How many people were transferred to an alternate provider of gender identity care from The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023?
  12. How many people were transferred to an alternate provider of gender identity care from The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic between January 1st 2018 and December 31st 2018?

Response sent

  1. How many people were on the waiting list for a first appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2023?

14,941

  1. How many people were seen from January 1st 2023 to December 31st 2023 for their first appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?

625

  1. How many people were on the waiting list for a first appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2018?

4,859

  1. How many people were seen from January 1st 2018 to December 31st 2018 for their first appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?

1,494

  1. How many people were on the waiting list for a second appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2023?

492

  1. How many people were seen from January 1st 2023 to December 31st 2023 for their second appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?

982

  1. How many people were on the waiting list for a second appointment at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic on December 31st 2018?

1,497

  1. How many people were seen from January 1st 2018 to December 31st 2018 for their second appointments at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic?

1,282

  1. How many people were employed in clinical roles at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2023?

This information is publicly available on our website, posted within financial years, within the response to a previous request, on the FOI disclosure log, and may be reached via 23-24208-GIC-Referrals_Appts_Budgets_Staff_-2017-18 question 13

  1. How many people were employed in clinical roles at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic as of December 31st 2018?

This information is publicly available on our website, posted within financial years, within the response to a previous request, on the FOI disclosure log, and may be reached via 23-24208-GIC-Referrals_Appts_Budgets_Staff_-2017-18 question 13

  1. How many people were transferred to an alternate provider of gender identity care from The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023?
  2. The table below shows the numbers of indicative referrals from our GIC waiting list who may have consented to transfer to one of the five NHS England pilot GIC pilot clinics’ waiting lists, as at 13th November 2023. We are currently double checking this data with the pilot clinics to ensure all consented referrals have successfully transferred from this Trust’s GIC to them, and once this exercise is complete, we plan publish these numbers on our website.
Pilot GIC Clinics Service Start Date Number of patients transferred as at 13/11/23
Sussex Gender Services Sept ‘23 52
TransPlus July ‘20 636
CMAGIC April ‘21 77
Indigo Gender Service Dec ‘20 56
East of England Gender Service June ‘21 1481
Total: 2,250
  1. How many people were transferred to an alternate provider of gender identity care from The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: Gender Identity Clinic between January 1st 2018 and December 31st 2018?

No formal process was in place to bulk transfer patients out of the GIC service.  In April 2017 the whole GIC service was transferred from the West London NHS Mental Health Trust to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust