Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the current waiting times are for people to get an initial appointment at an NHS Gender Identity Clinic, and whether these waiting times have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland (NGICNS) publishes a general overview of gender identity clinic waiting times in Scotland in its annual reports. The latest published annual report from NGICNS is available at: https://www.ngicns.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/midannual-reports/
The next annual report from NGICNS is due for release from May 2022.
From March 2020 unfortunately, as with other parts of the NHS, services delivered by gender identity clinics were and continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Scottish Government fully recognises the need to reduce waiting times to access NHS gender identity services. That is why we have committed to improving access to these services in our 2021/22 Programme for Government .