GIDS Referral Ages Analysis – All Years Held

Reference: 25-26132

Date response sent: 01/07/2025

Details of enquiry

For each calendar year in which data are held, please provide the following statistics on the ages of referred patients (in years):
1. Mean
2. Mode
3. Standard deviation
4. Skewness (per the SKEW function in Excel)
5. Kurtosis (per the KURT function in Excel)
6. Minimum
7. Maximum
8. First quartile (Q1)
9. Median
10. Third quartile (Q3)
11. Interquartile range (IQR)

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. Please provide these data in a spreadsheet (CSV) file to make it easier to analyse them.

Response sent

The GIDS service closed on 31st March 2024. In January 2025, the Trust responded to this same question about statistics, as specified in your question, on the ages of referrals to GIDS for all years for which data is held. Freedom of Information request 24-25407 GIDS Referral Ages Analysis – All Years Held which is publicly available on our website holds this data.

Section 21(1) of the Freedom of Information Act exempts disclosure of information that is reasonably accessible by other means, for example, on the Trust’s website, and the terms of the exemption mean that we do not have to consider whether or not it would be in the public interest for you to have the information as it is readily available for public review.

Please note that information provided under FOIA relates to information held at the date on which the request was made.