From House of Commons Hansard
Written Answers: 20th July 2006

Department of Health

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Gender Dysphoria

Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2006, Official Report, column 1220W, on gender dysphoria, what the locations are of centres providing gender reassignment surgery that have treated NHS patients. [85227]

Ms Rosie Winterton: In survey of specialised services commissioners conducted in October 2004, the following national health service trusts and private units provided gender dysphoria surgery:

Male to female:

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital);

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust;

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust;

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust;

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (Leicester General Infirmary);

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The Hove Nuffield; and

The Sussex Nuffield;

Female to male:

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust; and

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth.

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