Hi everyone,
As some of you will know, I'm on the wait list for gender affirming surgery under the NHS (UK). I have requested this to be at Parkside Wimbledon.
Because of the long wait times, gender services now put patients on a wait list outwith the actual hospital. This is called the Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service (GDNRSS). They take your name and keep you on their wait list until the hospital can see you, thus sparing the hospital from having to deal with wait lists themselves. Think of it as the equivalent of an aircraft holding pattern: you know, those annoying times when you approach your destination, only for air traffic control to put you into a figure of eight circling hold before being given your final approach for landing.
On other threads I've seen various wait times mentioned from 8 months to 3 years so I thought it might be helpful to keep this thread open for people to post up their actual empirical wait time experiences under NHS UK. It can then be a reference point and a useful litmus to monitor how things are progressing.
So I'll kick things off:
Requested hospital: Nuffield Wimbledon Parkside
Requested surgeon: Dr Tina Rashid
Gender Clinic Final Approval for surgery: January 2025
GDNRSS acknowledgement of place on their wait list: March 2025
First Appointment at hospital:
Second Appointment at hospital:
Surgery:
