Guy’s and St Thomas’ new community sexual health centre has treated almost 20% more patients since moving from a hospital clinic 12 months ago. Burrell Street in Southwark is the first NHS sexual health clinic in London to open seven days a week – it replaced the Lydia Clinic at St Thomas’ in December 2012. There were 24,980 attendances at Burrell Street from January to … [Read more...]
Statement from Brook: NATSAL and OCC reports
Responding to the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3) and the reports from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, Jules Hillier, Brook’s Deputy Chief Executive, said: “Two stories in today’s news about sex are very different – one is a fascinating insight into our sexual behaviour and attitudes which shows most people are enjoying safe and healthy … [Read more...]
Child Trafficking in Practice Part 2: 28th November 2013
Health sector - online training - Thinking Thursday November 2013 – Fourth Thursday Child Trafficking in Practice Part 2 - 28th November 2013 at 3:30pm Imogen Spencer-Chapman, Children’s Services Practitioner at the NSPCC Child Trafficking Advice Centre, explored issues related to migrant children who are trafficked to the UK in the Part 1 Session. In Part 2 Session, she … [Read more...]
Sexual healthcare dilemmas – always shades of grey?: 1st November 2013
Date Friday 1 November 2013 Venue Royal Society Of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE Please note that the Early bird fees expire on Friday 4 October 2013. For further meeting information please contact James Allen on + 44 (0)20 7290 3937 or email sexmed@rsm.ac.uk 9.00 am Registration, tea and coffee 9.30 am Welcome and … [Read more...]
Proud Study: Healthcare Worker Survey
Since 2012, the US Food and Drugs Administration have approved the use of daily Truvada (tenofovir co-formulated with emtricitabine) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for reducing the risk of sexual transmission of HIV infection. If PrEP were to be available as a biomedical intervention in the UK, healthcare providers would play a critical role in its … [Read more...]