Gill Bell has been a sexual health adviser since 1989, and a nurse consultant sexual health adviser since 2004, at Genitourinary Medicine in Sheffield. She set up the SSHA NICE sub-committee in 2008 to develop a national training programme for sexual health advisers on using a Motivational Interviewing approach to helping people reduce sexual risk. Since then she has written a … [Read more...]
London & Eastern Representative – Elizabeth Hodges & Lesley Robinson
London and Eastern Representative Elizabeth Hodges Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinic 1A, Box 38 Addenbrooke’s Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QQ 01223 217 137 Elizabeth.Hodges@addenbrookes.nhs.uk … [Read more...]
SSHA Conference: London 2006
A Second Draft of the Consultation Paper on Initial Sexual Health Adviser Education and Preparation - Developed by Anne McNall The Prevalence of Chlamydia Infection in Youth Offenders in HMP/YOI Holloway - Theresa Burns, Sexual Health Adviser Women’s Health Clinic, HMP/YOI Holloway & Marlborough Clinic, Royal Free Hospital The roles, responsibilities and job … [Read more...]
About Us
The Society of Sexual Health Advisers (SSHA) is a UK national organisation with approximately 300 members out of an estimated 350 sexual health advisers in the country. It provides an opportunity for members to meet and work towards further professional development. Sexual health advisers work in Departments of Genitourinary Medicine (GUM Clinics) in the UK and Ireland. The … [Read more...]
Welcome to the new SSHA Website
My goal for the new look site was to develop a user friendly, up-to-date, easily navigated site that would be a resource and a networking tool for Sexual Health Advisers in the UK and Ireland, a site that could keep our members informed of new developments and practices in sexual health and relevant news. There are two ways in which you can help the site to remain fresh, … [Read more...]