Here at SH:24 we are always looking for ways to innovate and improve our service. We’ve introduced selective testing in some of the areas we're commissioned in, and wanted to tell you a bit more about it.
Advice on the recent Hepatitis outbreak in the UK
BMJ award winners + we need your help
Increasing performance, reducing cost: perspectives from the new sexual health landscape
#Hellomynameis....Sarah Cox, our new nurse
SH:24 response to Guardian article: 'Cuts to sexual health services will lead to STI 'explosion', warn experts'
Sexual health made headlines yesterday as shadow public health minister, Andrew Gwynne claimed in The Guardian that the Labour Party’s analysis had found as much as £40 million could be cut from local councils’ sexual health budgets and that this would have a consequent effect on (already increasing) STI rates. This analysis doesn’t take into account the opportunity for online STI testing services to deliver efficiency savings and improve access to STI testing through remote home testing.
Communicating contraceptive choice
We’re having a little fanfare moment today as our contraception information and support pages have this week gone live. To put in context why we’ve done this work, we invited King’s College Hospital’s HIV, sexual health and contraception doctor, Dr. Verity Sullivan to write this week’s blog on her experiences with working with women and contraception...