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GIDS Suicides & Gender Dysphoria Internal Audit.

Reference: 24-25184

Date response sent: 12/08/2024

Details of enquiry

The Department of Health & Social Care published “Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report” on 19 July 2024. The article states that you conduct an internal audit.

 

Please send me:

  1. correspondence, discussion, agenda, minutes showing the circumstances that prompted the Trust to conduct the audit
  2. information about the extent of the audit
  3. information about the depth of the audit
  4. information about the methodology of the audit
  5. information identifying the external stakeholders (organisations, service providers, chartered accountants etc) involved in the audit
  6. the key dates (data cutoff, progress milestone, etc.) of the audit

Response sent

Please send me:

 

  1. correspondence, discussion, agenda, minutes showing the circumstances that prompted the Trust to conduct the auditThe work to which you refer, as stated by Prof Appleby in his Review of Suicides and Gender Dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, was a mortality audit, – undertaken by a clinician, in line with good clinical practice, to consider learning from deaths.
  2. information about the extent of the audit

As stated above.  This was a mortality audit looking at GIDS deaths 2018-23, as referenced in Prof Appleby’s report, conducted in line with good clinical practice and to support learning.

3. The information about the depth of the audit

The audit was a case notes review of the electronic patient record of deceased individuals.

4. information about the methodology of the audit

As stated above.  Case notes review of electronic patient records

5. information identifying the external stakeholders (organisations, service providers, chartered accountants etc) involved in the audit

This was an internal clinical audit.  Findings were shared with relevant external stakeholders.

6. the key dates (data cutoff, progress milestone, etc.) of the audit

Please see above.

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