Dorinda Thirlby started in Sexual Medicine/HIV in 1988, first as a nurse and then a Sexual Health Adviser. She has worked as Senior and Principal Health Adviser in 7 clinics in London and for the past 6 years as Health Adviser in Withington Sexual Medicine /HIV out patients in South Manchester. She is also a registered Integrative Psychotherapist. She has in the past … [Read more...]
MI Trainer: Gill Bell
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...]
Liverpool 2012 Conference – Presentations
Download the presentations from the SSHA Study Day Psychological Therapies for Risk Reduction - Dr Barbara Hedge [Consultant Clinical Psychologist] Setting up a Motivational Interviewing Service - Dónal Traynor [Senior Health Adviser] PN guidelines update - Justine Mellor, Heather Wilson, Jonathan Roberts, Gill Bell [SSHA NPC] Provider and contract referral for … [Read more...]
SSHA Conference: Fully booked
The Society of Sexual Health Advisers are delighted to announce that their annual sexual health advising conference will take place this year in Liverpool on Saturday 29th of September. The conference will look at the sexual health advising role in the ever changing NHS. It is an opportunity to share best practise and new ways of working. If you would like to be considered … [Read more...]
SSHA Study Day: 8th October 2010
You will probably be aware that this year’s SSHA Annual Conference that was to have been held at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast in September, has been cancelled due to lack of take-up. Reasons for lack of take-up are thought to be – accessibility/cost of travel, getting time off work, lack of funding for training. Location Diskus Conference Centre, Unite 128 Theobald’s … [Read more...]