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In 2020, due to a significant rise in the number of referrals to GIDS, NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned Hilary Cass, a paediatrician and former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to lead a review into gender identity services for children and young people. [53]
Logo of the Cass Review. The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (commonly, the Cass Review) was commissioned in 2020 by NHS England and NHS Improvement [1] and led by Hilary Cass, a retired consultant paediatrician and the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. [2]
The NHS is closing its gender identity clinic for children and young people and replacing it with a regional network after it was told that only having one provider “is not a safe or viable long ...
The first onsite visits were planned to start in September 2024. The findings would be used to support an updated adult gender service specification which will then be liable to engagement and public consultation. Unlike the Cass Review, the review of adult gender services was expected to be completed within months, rather than years. [13] [14 ...
After an initial aim for new clinics to be up and running by spring 2023, this has now been pushed to April 2024.
Public health officials in Scotland cited the Cass Review for their reasoning, saying it would be working with England’s NHS to “generate evidence of safety and long-term impact for therapies.”
The National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland reported in 2021 that some patients had waited in excess of two years from referral for their first appointment. [175] Minister for Public Health Maree Todd has stated that the Scottish Government wants to reduce "unacceptable waits to access gender identity services". [176]
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children is a 2023 nonfiction book by BBC Newsnight investigative journalist Hannah Barnes. The book is about the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust .