Gender Dysphoria: Hormone Treatments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many masculinising and feminising hormones NHS England have prescribed to people aged (a) 16 and (b) 17 in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England is not responsible for making prescribing decisions, as this is for determination by a patient's clinician, in consultation with the patient and family as appropriate.
No specific data is held on the number of different hormone drugs that may have been prescribed through the National Health Service. There are several different medications that can be prescribed for masculinising and feminising effects, some of them are branded medications and some are generic medications.
Regarding masculinising and feminising hormone request refusal, this information is not held centrally. This kind of information will only be found in the medical records of individual patients, reflecting the outcome of a clinical decision made by the individual patient's clinician.
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