The new centres took on a total of patients from Gids, but thousands more children are still awaiting appointments, data obtained by the PA news agency shows. NHS England acknowledged the worry and distress long waiting times can cause but said plans due to be set out will help to transform gender care services. At the point Gids closed at the end of March, the number of children on the national waiting list was 5, This rose to 5, by the end of May, and the youngest person on the waiting list at that point was under five years old, according to the Freedom Of Information FOI requests by PA.
Of the patients transferred from Gids to the Gosh gender service, all had been met for a first appointment by the end of May. Alder Hey said all patients transferred from Gids to its gender service were scheduled to be seen for a first appointment between its opening and June The two new centres, which currently serve patients across England and Wales, have around 40 full-time equivalent staff FTE staff, the figures also showed. When it opened, the Alder Hey hub had 7. Meanwhile the Gosh hub had The figures do not refer to headcount of people employed but instead to the number of full-time equivalent positions, which allows the workforce for both clinics to be compared.
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