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Society of Sexual Health Advisers

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Give young people and gay men free condoms to reduce STIs, watchdog says

August 7, 2016 By SSHA Leave a Comment

5 August 2016 by Sarah Boseley (Guardian) Link to Article Draft guidance from Nice says councils should consider schemes to provide free advice and condoms to halt rise in HIV and gonorrhoea Local authorities should run schemes to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...]

MI Trainer: Gill Bell

March 4, 2013 By SSHA Leave a Comment

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...]

Gill Bell – Co-Opted Member Guidelinies Group

October 19, 2011 By SSHA

Gill Bell Nurse Consultant Sexual Health Adviser Genitourinary Medicine Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield S10 2JF 0114 271 1706 0114 271 3526 07729 386 973 gill.bell@sth.nhs.uk Gill has been a Nurse Consultant Sexual Health Adviser in Sheffield since 2004. She has served on SSHA NPC from 2001 – 2007 as a Regional Representative (2001-2), Conference … [Read more...]

NICE: Public Health Intervention Guidance

April 6, 2011 By SSHA

Increasing the uptake of HIV testing among black Africans in England https://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH33 Increasing the uptake of HIV testing to reduce undiagnosed infection and prevent transmission among black African communities living in England This is one of two pieces of NICE guidance published in March 2011 on how to increase the uptake of HIV testing. A second … [Read more...]

A Clinical Audit Report on the implementation of the NICE guidelines

January 28, 2010 By SSHA

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...]

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About SSHA

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.

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