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Nottingham gender service

Posted By Second class citizen

"Nottingham gender service"

About: The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health

(as a service user),

Immersive Reader

Waiting for over two years now like many many others. I feel like am I left with one choice, suicide or self medicate hormones sourced internationally from the internet while having no checks on health. Will I get seen this year? Who knows.

While on the waiting list I've changed name, accessed potentially unsafe drugs, gained a voluntary global role for gender identity, and started to train to become a gender identity councillor. This all before actually having a single gender nhs appointment.

How is this acceptable?

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Response from Tina Nock, Service Manager, PRBS Gender Dysphoria Centre, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 5 years ago
Tina Nock
Service Manager, PRBS Gender Dysphoria Centre,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Submitted on 08/04/2020 at 10:53
Published on Care Opinion at 10:53

Immersive Reader

Thank you for your post and we are pleased to hear that there are some very positive things happening in your life whilst waiting to see a gender clinic. No doubt you will be very aware that there has been an increase in referrals and every clinic in England has been working closely with NHS England to identify how we can meet this need. The clinic has identified a number of areas that we believe will help the waiting list and have started to put potential plans into action with additional people joining the team and looking at new more efficient ways of working.

We will be slightly delayed in some of the plans due to the current situation with COVID-19, however one of the things that is still going ahead is the expansion of support from Gendered Intelligence to a 5 day service for people who are on the waiting list. We are also developing a number of helpful video’s for the website, which we also plan to revamp during the year. Whilst some of these things may not address the waiting time specifically we do hope that they will help and enable the time within the clinic from first assessment to discharge to be shorter.

Even though COVID-19 has stopped face to face appointments at the clinic, these are continuing through video or telephone, which we hope will reduce the impact on the waiting list and continue to provide a service to our patients at this very difficult and challenging time. We will continue throughout the next 10 to 12 weeks to develop our plans and hopefully be in a stronger position when people and patients can start to travel again.

If you would like to contact us via our email not-tr.gender-services@nhs.net, we can discuss the specifics of where you are on the current list and how our Opt-In process now works

Kind regards

Tina

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