In April 2011 the UKPHR opened the public health practitioner route to the register, in order to become a registered practitioner you have to apply through a UKPHR quality assured local assessment and verification scheme, and we are encouraging the development of more schemes and recently ran a webinar to help to explain the process. The co-ordination is an essential element of … [Read more...]
SSHA Treasurers Report: September 2011
The previous quarter has been quite busy with finalisation of this year’s conference. We are still awaiting around £825 to come in order to finalise any profit. This has been a successful period with lots of interest in attending conference in Cardiff and good numbers maintained even though we had some late cancellations. The interest I believe is due to the reasonable cost to … [Read more...]
SSHA London Regional Meeting
Date / Time Thurs 24th November 2011 5.30 for 6.00 - 8.00pm Location Seminar Room, Lloyd Clinic, Guys Hospital Programme 17.30 Tea / Coffee / Snacks 18.00 Welcome and introductions 18.15 "One night with Venus and a 1000 with Mercury - Re-emergence of Congenital Syphilis" Renee Aroney - St Georges Hospital 18.45 "Where are we now with Registration" - Zoe … [Read more...]
The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2011-2015
Introduction The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework sets out the Scottish Government's agenda in relation to sexual health, HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B for the next four years. For the first time, these four policy areas have been brought together into a single integrated strategy. Building on the solid foundations of proven and successful Scottish Government … [Read more...]
New NAT report on RITA testing and HIV Prosecutions
Please find an electronic copy of NAT's latest report 'HIV Forensics II: Estimating the likelihood of recent HIV infection - Implications for criminal prosecutions'. The report is also available on the NAT website at: https://www.nat.org.uk/Our-thinking/Law-stigma-and-discrimination/Criminal-prosecutions.aspx RITA tests on HIV positive results to investigate recency of … [Read more...]