In this survey we will be asking you about your views about establishing a new type of service. Please do read this introductory text to equip you with your response.

The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Healthcare (NCTH) with Cambridge and Peterborough Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are at the very early stages of a scoping exercise for a potential transgender healthcare service for people in the East of England.    

The information from the survey is the start of a proposal for consideration to improve access to transgender healthcare by reducing the waiting time to treatment experienced by patients and also offering transgender healthcare with less travel requirements.

Leading up to this proposal, we would like to hear your views about the potential model of the service.

Rather than the ‘traditional’ model of transgender healthcare services in England, we are thinking about a Clinical Nurse Specialist and General Practitioner lead service, located in the Cambridgeshire area.

A service for adults from the age of 17 years old who are already on waiting lists of transgender healthcare services in England and live within the boundaries of the East of England.

The current idea would be to establish a new network model of transgender healthcare, where a proposed service could be locally based but, if a higher level of need was required, could utilise its network with NCTH to provide more specialist care.

The initial thoughts are that such a service could offer more timely care and be able to provide care to those who have different support needs.

We feel that expanding a Multiple Disciplinary team in transgender healthcare and its clinical leadership is key to modernising and improving the delivery of transgender healthcare rather than continuing with the existing model of care.

At this stage of the scoping exercise and service design, we need your feedback to enable us to develop the proposal for consideration.