Dear members, Thank you for taking part in this consultation led by the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) team at Public Health England. We would welcome your views if your service is involved in any testing for chlamydia regardless of whether or not this is part of NCSP screening (i.e. either as screening or for clinical diagnosis). Presently, there are two … [Read more...]
London 2016 Conference – Presentations
A Partner Notification Bureau in action - Gill Bell, Nurse Consultant Sexual Health Adviser, Sheffield Real-time Partner Notification - Dr Anatole S Menon-Johansson, SXT Health CIC Health Advisers and Supervision Audit Results - Maeve Cross Senior Health Adviser GUM Belfast Centralised Result Management Bureau - Merle Symonds, Lead Health Adviser & … [Read more...]
Give young people and gay men free condoms to reduce STIs, watchdog says
5 August 2016 by Sarah Boseley (Guardian) Link to Article Draft guidance from Nice says councils should consider schemes to provide free advice and condoms to halt rise in HIV and gonorrhoea Local authorities should run schemes to supply young people with free condoms and sex advice in an attempt to curtail the number of sexually transmitted infections, a health … [Read more...]
Health Advisers receive BASHH awards at this years BASHH Conference
There was a special Sexual health Nurses and Sexual Health Advisers symposium that ran on the first morning of the BASHH Conference 2016 with presentations aimed specifically at and by these groups. There were 4 Bronze scholarships awarded to Sexual Health Advisers this year for the quality of their abstract submissions – this means they received complimentary conference … [Read more...]
Surge in sexual infections in London as capital is STI black spot
One in four STI cases in England are in London, official figures show by Ross Lydall 6th July 2016 Evening Standard Young Londoners who have unprotected sex are fuelling a rise in infections including a 15 per cent increase in gonorrhoea, figures showed today. More than a third of the 118,774 sexually transmitted infections reported in the capital last year were in … [Read more...]