Gender Service Referrals - FOI Response Register

1. Number of referrals for gender services, annually, from 2010 to present

• Of these, number which were referrals from GPs, were self-referrals, referrals from other gender or sexual health services, and referrals from any other source.

2. Proportion of patients referred to gender services who were later prescribed/given gender-affirming treatments/medication, annually, from 2010 to present
3. Of the patients who did receive gender-affirming treatments in (2), please provide, by year from 2010 (by referral here I mean ‘referral to gender services):

• Mean average time between referral and decision to treat for adult patients
• (a) broken down by MtF and FtM patients
• Mean average time between referral and decision to treat for child patients
• (a) broken down by MtF and FtM patients
• Shortest time between referral and decision to treat for adult and child patients
• Longest time between referral and decision to treat for adult and child patients
• Mean average number of contact hours with a clinical psychologist for patients between referral and decision to treat
• Lowest single number of contact hours by a patients with a clinical psychologist between referral and decision to treat

4. Between 2010 and present, broken down by individual prescribing clinician (can be referred to by a number of pseudonym to preserve anonymity), proportion of referred-to patients for whom a decision to treat with hormones or puberty blockers was made.

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested. NHS Shetland do not provide a Gender Service.