Our correspondence with NHS England about gender identity services

Response - 30 July 2015

We write to NHS England to ask for clarity on how additional funds for improvements to gender identity services will be spent.

NHS England recently announced an additional investment of £4.4 million in providers of gender identity services to help reduce waiting times.

Further to our previous correspondence with NHS England on this issue,  we have now written to Richard Jeavons, Director of Specialised Commissioning at NHS England to seek clarity on how and when additional funding will applied. 

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Our letter to NHS England
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Appendix to our letter on gender identity services
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