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GIDS Referrals; All years Held, by Age Band Percentage

Reference: 25-26133

Date response sent: 21/07/2025

Details of enquiry

please provide the following information regarding the ages of patients referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).  For each calendar year in which data are held, please provide the percentage of all referred patients falling into each of the following age bands:

  1. Under 12 years of age;
  2. 12-13 years of age
  3. 14-15 years of age
  4. Above 15 years of age

Please provide these data separately for patients assigned

a. male at birth

b. and those assigned female at birth,

c. 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 data you have requested has been set out in the attached csv file by gender assigned at birth and includes a not identified category  where the data field in the patient records do not indicate the gender assigned at birth.  Please note that:

 

  1. During the period that GIDS was being decommissioned it remained open and continued to treat patients. It closed in March 2024, and the data transfer to NHS England (NHSE) has now completed. This means that any future requests about GIDS should, in the first instance, be addressed to NHSE at contactus@nhs.net
  2. There was a phased transfer of the GIDS waiting list and new referrals to NHSE Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden and GEM CSU), as set out below. Once this transfer completed, GIDS no longer managed the waiting list nor any new referrals.

Data that the Trust holds, on GIDS new referrals, is therefore restricted to the periods prior to the changes in patient management, as set out below.

  • From July 2021: GIDS referrals from General Practitioners and other non-CAMHS/paediatric referrers were handled by Arden and GEM CSU on behalf of NHS England
  • From October 2022 all new referrals from any referrer were redirected to Arden & GEM CSU.
  • From 23 March 2023, The whole GIDS waiting list and all new referrals were managed by Arden and GEM.

GIDS no longer held or managed the waiting list for GIDS, the Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Services.

  • NHSE/I are the data controllers for the AGEM Referral Hub. Should you wish to contact them directly to learn more about the referrals/waiting list that they hold, the relevant email address is contactus@nhs.net

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