I’d like to know this too - I don’t think they are compiled anywhere tho.
Perhaps we could brainstorm a FOI request?
Not sure how to phrase it, I think there is a bit of an art to getting it right?
We know how many children have been referred each year thanks to previous FOI and GIDS now have those figures on their website.
What we need to know is how many new patients they’ve seen each year since day, 2013
and how long the average wait was from referral to first appointment?
Those two, along with the already published total referral numbers should tell us how many drop out without being seen?
And then we’d also need to know how many ‘age out’ of GIDs whilst on the wait list, and subsequently have their first appointment at an adult GIC instead.
How would we phrase that bit? I think at the moment the wait list is long enough that you’d need to be referred before the age of about 14 to get cross sex hormones from GIDS (2 plus years wait for assessment appointment, referral to endocrinologist, 1 year on blockers = close enough to 18 to transfer care to adult service (the only private service willing to prescribe to under 18s are GenderGP aka the Webberleys, whose credibility is shot to shit both inside and outside trans circles. I think Susie Green has a pet European doctor that parents can fly their kids to see for a hormone prescription (obvs not during lockdown).
There is some published stuff on referrals from GIDS to the prescribing endocrinologists (at UCH?) I will try and dig it out.
The answers will be far too late to win your online debate but at least we’ll have the answers for the next one!