Submitted by Nathaniel Mee on Thursday 28th November 2024
Published on Tuesday 14th January 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 14th July 2025
Current Signatures: 36
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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18 months ~ 5 years ~ Access ~ fund ~ Gender ~ Gender dysphoria ~ Healthcare ~ Hormone replacement therapy ~ month ~ NHS ~ South West ~ Target ~ The NHS ~ Therapy ~ Time ~ training ~ Trans ~ trans people ~ Transgender ~ weeks ~ West ~ Years
Increase funding for transgender healthcare to reduce waiting times & train GPs
Increase funding to help reduce transgender healthcare waiting times to 18 weeks. Fund training for GPs in identifying and diagnosing gender dysphoria, prescribing hormone replacement therapy and monitoring bloodwork.
Transgender healthcare is currently available on the NHS through Gender Clinics with an average wait time of 18 months. The highest average waiting times are in the South West, at 7.5 years, which is 21.7 times longer than the 18 week target for elective care. We think this is completely unacceptable. For many trans people, access to this treatment is absolutely critical, and we believe having such long waiting times, is by definition, systemic discrimination.
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