Written questions

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

2026-06-07 · Department of Health and Social Care · 7912 · Official question

Rebecca Paul

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that robust and consistent informed consent processes are applied in the provision of adult NHS gender identity services.

Answer

NHS England's national service specification for adult gender services requires clinicians to make all efforts to ensure that individuals are aware of the longer-term consequences of the interventions offered to them. The service specification describes t...