Question follow-through · 1586
Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to develop and implement national evidence-based clinical guidelines for adult gender identity services across NHS England.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to develop and implement national evidence-based clinical guidelines for adult gender identity services across NHS England.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
NHS England will publish a proposed clinical commissioning policy position on the use of masculinising and feminising hormone medications for the clinical indication of gender dysphoria later this year, for the purpose of public consultation, including th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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