The Society of Sexual Health Advisers one day annual conference will take place on Saturday the 22nd of September at Unite House, Theobalds Road, Holborn, London. This conference is aimed at all practitioners working in sexual health in the roles of sexual health advising and sexual health nursing. Topics covered this year will include: · Forensic Safeguarding · … [Read more...]
BASHH Annual Conference 2016: Twitter Updates
Unable to attend this years BASHH conference? Check out the tweets from those who did attend. Conference Twitter Feed https://twitter.com/hashtag/bashh16?vertical=default … [Read more...]
Super gonorrhoea is coming and George Osborne needs to dig deep – fast
by Verity Sullivan 19 APRIL 2016 The words “Super Gonorrhoea!” have been splattered across the pages of every news outlet this week. The STI that affects 35,000 people in the UK every year, we’re told, is outsmarting our modern day cures and promises to spread through the population like wildfire. But what’s all the fuss really about? And is our increasingly weary health … [Read more...]
GRASP 2010 (Gonococcal Resistance to Antimcrobials Surveillance Programme)
Synopsis GRASP (Gonococcal Resistance to Antimcrobials Surveillance Programme) is a national sentinel surveillance programme which has monitored trends and drifts in susceptibility in gonococcal isolates since 2000. It collects isolates from consecutive patients attending a network of 26 genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics that give regional representation in England and … [Read more...]