National Organising Professional Committee

President

Ceri Evans

Senior Sexual Health Adviser

Hammersmith Broadway Clinic: 10-hammersmith-broadway

Ceri has been a Sexual Health Adviser since 1991, and is the Senior SHA at 10 Hammersmith Broadway Clinic in London. She is the current President of SSHA, having taken over from Martin Murchie in September 2019. Ceri is also the SHA representative on BASHH Board, Clinical Standard Unit, Herpes SIG and STIF Competency and Foundation groups. Her particular interests include working with people with Learning Disabilities, Young People and Pornography and the Criminalisation of STI Transmission. Please feel free to contact her on ceri.evans@chelwest.nhs.uk if you have any questions relating to sexual health advising or SSHA.

Honorary Secretary

Richard Williams

Email: richard.grenville@btinternet.com

Honorary Treasurer

Michael Clarke

Email: Michael.Clarke@UHBristol.nhs.uk

UNITE Professional Officer

Ethel Rodrigues

Email: Ethel.Rodrigues@unitetheunion.org

Equalities/Education Officer

Dorinda Thirlby

Health Adviser

Sexual Health at Withington Clinic: www.mft.nhs.uk

Email: dorinda.thirlby@nhs.net

Started in GUM in 1988 as a nurse and moved into health advising in 1990 . Has worked in 9 different GUM clinics in London and now Manchester . Dorinda continues to feel very passionate about the HA role and has now qualified and work as a psychotherapist and has particularly been involved in developing the motivational interviewing training.

London & Eastern Representative

Ceri Evans

Senior Sexual Health Adviser

Hammersmith Broadway Clinic: 10-hammersmith-broadway

Email: Ceri.Evans@chelwest.nhs.uk

Hu Clarke

Sexual Health Adviser

Homerton University hospital: www.homerton.nhs.uk/sexual-health/

Email: hu.clarke@nhs.net

Hu has been a Sexual Health Adviser, at Homerton University Hospital since 2013. He is a qualified Psychodynamic and Psychosexual Therapist, with over 20 years’ experience. Hu is also a clinical supervisor and trainer, previously working for Family Planning Association and Body Positive (London). His interests include working with people with Learning Disabilities, Young People, Homeless, LGBTQ+ and BAME and hard to reach communities. Please feel free to contact him on hu.clarke@nhs.net, if you have any questions relating to SSHA.

South East Representative

Justine Orme

Email: Justine.Orme@bsuh.nhs.uk

Ireland Representative

Stephen Greenlees

Email: Stephen.Greenlees@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Wales Representative

Linda Furness

Email: Linda.Furness@wales.nhs.uk

Scotland Representatives

Martin Murchie

Sexual Health Adviser/Lecturer in Adult Nursing

Sandyford Sexual Health: https://www.sandyford.scot/sexual-health-services/

Glasgow Caledonian University: https://www.gcu.ac.uk/hls/aboutus/departments/nursingandcommunityhealth/

Email: martin.murchie3@nhs.scot

Martin qualified as a nurse in 1995 and thankfully at the time was asked to cover some nursing sessions in GUM which sparked my interested and career in sexual health. In 1998 he was successful in gaining the first sexual health advising post focused on gay men within Scotland moving on to become the Senior SHA with Sandyford services in 2001. He has worked in sexual health for over 25 years though changed career in to nurse education at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2019 but continues to work two sessions in sexual health advising within Sandyford.