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NEW:Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) Executive - leadership team - to be ‘disbanded’ in response to CQC’s ‘inadequate’ rating of service & decision in Keira Bell judicial review on whether under 16s can consent to treatment with puberty blockers @deb_cohen 1/

“In response to the CQC report and the breadth of existing actions flowing from the Judicial Review judgment we are proposing to take immediate action to strengthen management arrangements for the service and increase our clinical and operational capacity to deliver change” 2/

This will see “a new Interim GIDS Management Board, chaired by the Divisional Director for Gender. This will replace existing senior management structures in GIDS and will provide a single point of accountability for both improvement programmes and existing service delivery.” 3/

This board will be accountable to a new ‘GIDS Oversight Committee’ chaired by Tavistock CEO Paul Jenkins. 4/

“A consequence of these arrangements is that the current GIDS Executive team will be disbanded. Its members will have roles in workstreams and projects relevant to their skills and experience... The Service Director will have a place on the GIDS Interim Management Board.” 5/

The Tavistock and Portman Trust also plan to recruit “a range of clinical and operational experts from outside the service, and in most cases from outside the Trust to increase our capacity to manage and deliver change at pace.” 6/

This current job advert to work in GIDS highlights that job will see applicant offering psychological treatment and therapy “for issues relating to a range of mental health conditions.”
m.pulsejobs.com/psychological-… 7/

All details are in newly published Board papers found here: tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/gover…
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