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Since 2008, surveillance of STIs in England has been conducted using the Genitourinary Medicine Clinic Activity Dataset (hereafter referred to as \u2018GUMCAD\u2019), a depersonalised dataset of all attendances at all publicly-commissioned sexual health services (SHS). The aim of is this article is to describe and evaluate the piloting and rollout of an enhanced specification of GUMCAD at SHS in England.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>GUMCAD was enhanced in 2019 to allow SHS to report the gender identity (whether cisgender, transgender, gender diverse) of service users, and selected behavioural information collected during routine sexual history-taking such as the number of recent sex partners (last 3 months).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Feasibility and acceptability of reporting these new data were confirmed in the pilot stage. 2023 was the first year over which most SHS (93%, 224\/241) submitted enhanced GUMCAD data. Of all 4,610,410 consultations at SHS in 2023, gender identity (96% of consultations) and data on whether this varied from the sex registered at birth (88% of consultations) were well reported. Transgender women, transgender men, and gender-diverse individuals (identifying as non-binary or in any other way) respectively comprised 0.4%, 0.4%, and 0.5% of all consultations in 2023. There was less complete reporting of recent sex partners but, where reported, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men were more likely to report multiple recent sex partners.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This enhancement provides novel insights into sexual health need relevant to targeting existing and novel preventative interventions for STIs such as 4CMenB vaccination for gonorrhoea and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for syphilis in England. 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