Full assessment:
R - Ellaone Day 80 AR Clinical.pdf

We were wording how sexual and reproductive service in London were supplying ellaOne. We did a 'mini-survey' of service leaders in London to gauge what was happening.

So we started off asking "Do you currently use ellaOne, or plan to use it soon". We had 15 responses and all said yes.

We then asked "Do you offer it to all women attending for EC or for selected clients". Two services offer if to everyone.

The majority, 10, said they offered it to selected clients only. Then we gave a number of options on how they would make the selection.

Friday 30th March 2012, 2-5pm

A workshop for ‘expert’ IUD fitters – an opportunity to share ideas and practices with experienced colleagues.

Venue: Conference Room, Soho Centre for Health and Care, 1 Firth St. London W1D 3HZ

Tube: Tottenham Court Rd

Cost: £30. Sent cheque made payable to ‘NWLH General Charitable Fund’ to:- Alison Little, Westside Contraceptive Services, Raymede Clinic, St Charles Hospital,
 Exmoor St, London. W10 6 DZ

Number: Max 15 people.

I heard recently that prescriptions for many contraceptive had fallen so I have looked at the Prescription Cost Analysis from DoH for data on GP prescribing. Data are available for England from 1998 to 2010.

Most prescribing of contraceptive is done in general practice, although this applies more to the OCs and DMPA than to the other LARC methods, which require specialist training for insertion.

LARCs

Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare

In January 2010 the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare launched their new Diploma course. The course comprises of three stages:

1. e-SRH - an e-learning course
2. Course of 5 - a course of five seminars
3. Clinical experience - clinical sessions at the Contraception & Sexual Health Clinic

We are pleased to welcome all the GPs who joined the Chlamydia Screening Programme over the past year. This began with GPs in Kensington & Chelsea last autumn, followed by GPs in Westminster, then Hammersmith & Fulham GPs earlier this year.

General Practice has an important part to play in the delivery of the Screening Programme. Between 60% and 83% of young people visit their GPs every year and this is an ideal opportunity to offer Chlamydia screening.

Indeed, the majority of Programmes which achieved their target last year obtained over half of those screens from core services: general practice, community pharmacists and contraceptive services. This year we will be focussing on General Practice by offering support and regular training to help practices take every opportunity to offer screening to their patients.