5 August 2016 by Sarah Boseley (Guardian) Link to Article Draft guidance from Nice says councils should consider schemes to provide free advice and condoms to halt rise in HIV and gonorrhoea Local authorities should run schemes to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...]
Book your place now for SSHA Conference 2010
May 2010 Dear Member, ‘Reality bites – challenges in current practice’ This year’s SSHA conference will be at the Hilton Hotel, Belfast from September 17th - 19th 2010. To date, completed applications to this years SSHA conference, provisionally organised for Belfast has been slow. The HA team in Belfast were the only team interested in hosting and organising conference … [Read more...]
A Clinical Audit Report on the implementation of the NICE guidelines
CLINICAL AUDIT REPORT Implementation of NICE guidelines (PH3) on one to one interventions to reduce the transmission of STI’s including HIV, and to reduce the rates of under 18 conceptions, especially among vulnerable and at risk groups Department of Infectious Diseases and Sexual Health Speciality Medicine Audit lead: Justine Mellor Report by: Justine Mellor Date report … [Read more...]
Briefing Paper – Sexual Health Advising- Developing the Workforce
There are approximately 500 Sexual Health Advisers employed in the United Kingdom at present (SSHA 2007). They are employed within genitourinary medicine services, in community sexual health advising services and within the national chlamydia screening programme. The majority (421) are nurses; others are from a range of backgrounds. There has been no nationally recognised … [Read more...]