This is the report of the Care Quality Commission into the Charing Cross Gender Identity• One’s innermost concept of self as male or female or both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One’s gender identity can be the same or different than the sex assigned at birth. Individuals are conscious of this between the ages 18 months and 3 years. Most people develop a gender identity that matches their biological sex. For some, however, their gender identity is different from their biological or assigned sex. Some of these individuals choose to socially, hormonally and/or surgically change their sex to more fully match their gender identity.
• The gender to which one feels one belongs.
• Internal and psychological sense of oneself as a woman, a man, both, in between, or neither.
Clinic and their inspection took place on 19th and 20th January 2016.
They seem to have dug quite deeply into the workings of the clinic and have found areas where the clinic is not meeting national targets – one area is of giving first appointments within 18 weeks of referral.
Another area is medical letters to their clients, and also cancelling appointments at very short notice.
I was a patient of theirs in 1996–2002, and I can vividly remember the same problems occurring then, so not much has changed in the intervening years. They still haven’t learnt from their mistakes, and still need to have their feet held to the fire to ensure these things are changed to benefit their current patients and also their future patients too!
Download – CQC Report into Charing X GIC