Government of Jersey spend on various surgery and Gender Identity Clinics (FOI)

Request

We should be grateful to receive answers to the following questions under the FOI law –

A

How much has been spent by the Government of Jersey with NHS providers on the following surgical procedures for patients between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021:

• Vaginoplasty
• Feminizing augmentation mammoplasty
• Orchiectomy
• Facial feminisation surgery
• Reduction thyrochondroplasty
• Voice feminisation surgery
• Chest masculinisation surgery
• Metoidioplasty
• Phalloplasty
• Scrotoplasty

In providing the information, we are happy for categories i to vi to be combined into one total spend and categories vii to x to be combined into one total spend, if this makes providing the information easier.

B

How much has been spent by the Government of Jersey with the NHS Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic for patients between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021?

C

How much has been spent by the Government of Jersey with the NHS Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic for patients between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021?

Response

A

Records held by Health and Community Services (HCS) show that £32,190 has been paid to NHS providers for the surgical procedures specified between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2021. These treatment costs are inclusive of all care provided during the surgical admissions.

HCS do not hold a breakdown of the procedure costs alone, so cannot provide this figure. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies to this part of the request.

B and C

Both NHS Charring Cross Gender Identity Clinic and NHS Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic are run by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

The total spend by the Government of Jersey with Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust for care provided by their Gender Identity Clinic and Gender Identity Development Service between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2022 is £100,845. This information relates to NHS Financial Years, which run from April 1st to March 31st of the following year.

Figures for the timeframe of 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2021 stipulated in questions 2 and 3 are not held. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies to this part of the request.

Article Applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.