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NETWORK NEWS

SWL HPU / SWAGNET SEXUAL HEALTH DATA REPORT Q1 2008
Genital Warts cases diagnosed in SWL GUM Clinics increased by 19% from Q4 2007 to Q1 2008
Herpes cases diagnosed in swl gum clinics have decreased by 10.8% from Q4 2007 to Q1 2008
Click above for full report. Click below for Q4 2007 report.
SWL HPU / SWAGNET Sexual health datA report q4 2007

	SWL CHLAMYDIA SCREENING PROGRAMME - SCREENING SITES Click above for a spreadsheet containing all the South West London Chlamydia Screening Sites. Each sheet is divided up by PCT. The spreadsheet also features details of the GUM Clinic treatment hubs and their opening times.
	Clamelle Azithromycin to be made available without prescription to treat Chlamydia Click above for a statement from the National Chlamydia Screening Programme on the availability to purchase treatment for Chlamydia over the counter at Pharmacies. Visit the News Centre at www.mhra.gov.uk for a press release from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRA.

SWAGNET Annual report 2007 - 2008
Click above for the SWAGNET 2007 - 2008 Annual Report. The SWAGNET Management team would like to thank Dr Richard Lau and the Subgroup co-chairs for their contributions to this report.
If you would like to request a hard copy of this report please contact the SWAGNET Office.

	DEFINE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT ON INSIGHT & SEGMENTATION REVIEW FOR SEXUAL HEALTH SOCIAL MARKETING STRATEGY Click above for full report from Define.
	Job Vacancies Job vacancies may be posted on the Notice board. Please send any vacancies you would like to advertise to janine.railton@wpct.nhs.uk. Please include closing date and any other relevant details.
	HPA Summary of Level 2 Sexual Health Services in England 2008 Click above for the results from the HPA survey on Level 2 Sexual Health Services in England. This gives overall values per SHA, however the MedFASH service mapping / needs assessment will give us more detailed data by PCT.
	Alcohol & sexual Health seminar - Tuesday 21st October 2008 Croydon Hilton Hotel Waddon Way Croydon CR9 4HH 9.30am – 1.30pm followed by Lunch Click above for flyer advertising a seminar aimed at anyone who works with Young People featuring guest speakers and workshops. Click here for application form. For further details contact Croydon Teenage Pregnancy on 020 8274 6448 or email Michele.dcruz@croydonpct.nhs.uk Priority will be given to Croydon PCT professionals in the first instance. Places will be offered to other interested parties following availability.
	Progress & Priorities - Working together for High Quality Sexual Health Click above for a link to download the latest report on Sexual Health from MedFASH for the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health & HIV. The report addresses issues such as the changing context of sexual health, action to drive forward the strategic and measuring further progress. Scroll right down the page until you find IAG reports.
	Sexually Transmitted Infections & Young People in the UK: 2008 Report Click above for the latest report from the HPA on young people in the UK and STI's including HIV.
	DISTURBING SYMPTOMS 6 - How Primary Care Trusts managed Sexual Health and HIV in 2007 and how specialist clinicians viewed their progress Click above for the latest Disturbing Symptoms report from THT. Click here for a news release circulated with the report.

STIF Course – Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 January 2009
Click above for an application form to attend either of our STIF Courses taking place in the near future.
Courses are taking place on the dates below:

FULLY BOOKED - Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd October 2008 - The Princess Alice Conference Centre
PLACES STILL AVAILABLE - Monday 19th & Tuesday 20th January 2009 - Mayday Postgraduate Medical Centre

Course cost: £200 including Lunch, Tea & Coffee for both days
Priority will be given to South West London Staff.
See Primary Care / STIF Course page on the left hand side for more details

	SWAGNET ELECTRONIC NEWS See under Noticeboard for latest copies of SWAGNET Electronic News
	FULL NETWORK MEETING - WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2008 ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MANAGING HIV INFECTION IN ADOLESCENTS - ‘From the Cradle to the Rave’ The Penta Team put together a very interesting programme for this meeting on managing HIV infection in adolescents and will also include a local and a personal perspective. The organised and chaired by Dr Katia Prime. Click title above for full programme.

	Body and Soul Body & Soul is the only UK charity to support children, young people & families living with or closely affected by HIV, to help them come to terms with the devastation of an HIV diagnosis. Click on the two links below to find out more about the services provided by Body & Soul, times and general information. Teen Spirit / Body & Soul
	One Stop Shop – Models of Sexual Health Provision Click above to download the National Evaluation of One-Stop Shops for Sexual Health – Executive Summary and Full Report.

GUM - 48 hour Access: Getting to the target and staying there
The latest guidance on 48 hour Access is available to download. Published on the 19^th February click the link above which directs you to the page on the Department of health website where you can order hard copies or download.

South West London HIV Epidemiology Report 2006
The latest South West London HIV report was published on Thursday 28^th February 2008. The report presents the most recent information about HIV in SWL, highlighting the trends, risk groups and prevalence. Click above for full report. The HPA are looking at ways to improve the report for next year and would welcome any feedback click here for Evaluation form

	Sexual Health Needs Assessments: A ‘How to’ Guide’ The National Support Team has recently published with DesignOptions. How can we most effectively make the business case in PCTs for sexual health and HIV services. This is available at http://designoptions.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90&Itemid=78
	Sexual Health and HIV: Measures for success in England Click above for full report issued by Brook, fpa, NAT, and the Terrence Higgins Trust.
	PAYMENT BY RESULTS - ROAD-TESTING FOR 2008 - 2009 On Monday 8th October the Department of Health issued the latest package for the 2008/09 Payment by Results Road-Testing Exercise. Written by David Flory - Director General, NHS Finance, Performance and Operation click above for letter and full report.

	OUR NHS OUR FUTURE - NHS NEXT STAGE REVIEW INTERIM REPORT - OCTOBER 2007 Above is the the interim Darzi report Shaping health care for the next decade. To comment on the above report visit : http://www.ournhs.nhs.uk/have_your_say/
	SEXUAL HEALTH SHIAG NEWSLETTER - ISSUE 5 OCTOBER 2007 SPECIAL HIV ISSUE Click above to see this special issue newsletter on HIV produced by the Government's advisory group on sexual health, the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) on Sexual Health and HIV

HPA – 2006 STI Data
Diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections in genitourinary medicine clinics rose by 2 per cent in 2006, according to figures from the Health Protection Agency.
Rates of diagnosis were highest in women aged 16-19 years and men aged 20-24 years. Chlamydia was the most commonly diagnosed infection and diagnoses of first episode genital warts and genital herpes continued to rise, by 3 per cent and 9 per cent respectively in 2006. Click link above for more details
Click here for link to full Report: A Complex Picture - HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in the UK 2006

	Teenage Parents Next Steps: Guidance for Local Authorities & Primary Care Trusts The Teenage Parents: Next Steps guidance focuses on supporting and improving outcomes for Teenage Parents. Click above for guidance Click here for Presentation given at YLM TP meeting
	Improving Access to Sexual Health Services for Young People in Further Education Settings The Department for Education and Science published Best Practice Guidance for the FE sector and Primary Care Trusts on establishing sexual health advice in FE colleges and other post-16 education settings on 28 June 2007. Please see the link below. http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/resources-and-practice/IG00244/ www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/teenagepregnancy
	A national audit of access to Genitourinary Medicine Clinics 2 GUM Waiting Times Audit- May 2007 The Health Protection Agency published the May 2007 GUM waiting times Audit 29 June 2007. Please see the link below. http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/hiv_and_sti/epidemiology/wtimes.htm

HPA GUM WAITING TIMES - FEBRUARY 2007
HPA SUMMARY OF GUM WAITING TIMES REPORT, NOVEMBER - FEBRUARY 2007

Click above for the latest GUM waiting times data.

Click here for background information and Click here for a results overview.

INDICATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE ENGLISH REGIONS: 6 SEXUAL HEALTH REPORT
Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Above is the summary for London.
The full report can be found at: http://www.apho.org.uk/apho/viewResource.aspx?id=4618.

HIV POSITIVE ASYLUM SEEKERS AT RISK FROM DISPERSAL SCHEME

          The National Aids Trust is raising the profile of their concerns that HIV positive asylum seekers are being put at
          potential risk by being dispersed despite government measures designed to tackle the issue. The National AIDS
          Trust has drawn up guidance for health workers on the Home Office policy together with the British HIV Association.
          The guidance sets out how transfers should “normally” only take place if the asylum seeker is medically stable, if
          adequate notice has been given and there are satisfactory arrangements are in place for the safe transfer of care

WORKING TOGETHER TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN
The Teenage Pregnancy Unit/DfES has produced the attached Q&A sheet on sexual activity of under 16's and under 13's

PAYMENT BY RESULTS
From April 2006, national tariffs are set for first and follow-up GUM attendances. There are many challenges that London GUM services and PCTs need to resolve prior to this. In February 2006, there was consensus on the need for a London-wide approach to PbR from 2 seminars of over 200 key strategic stakeholders including PCT commissioners, NHS clinicians and the voluntary sector.

Definition of first attendance and follow up

CAPITAL FUNDING FOR SEXUAL HEALTH CLINICS 2006/7
There is £25million capital funding available for sexual health in the next financial year announced as part of the allocations from the Choosing Health White paper. It has been agreed centrally in DH that all capital funding for 2006/7 including the sexual health money, will be allocated to SHAs on a weighted capitation basis.
Sexual health and access to Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinics has been identified as one of six key priorities for action for the NHS in 2006/7. In particular, delivering the LDP trajectories so that by 2008 everyone referred to a GUM clinic should be able to have an appointment in 48 hours.

CHLAMYDIA CONTACT SLIP

A sample of the Chlamydia Contact Slip, available for use for Partner Notification in the Community setting has been added to the site. To view the sample, click above. To request an electronic copy for printing,
please contact Network Administration.

COMMISSIONING A PATIENT- LED NHS
The London Response has been issued by the five London strategic health authorities today Monday 17th October 2005.

This paper sets out London's response to Commissioning a Patient-led NHS, published by the Department of Health in July 2005. It proposes options for the future structure and functions of strategic health authorities (SHAs), primary care trusts and care trusts in London and arrangements for the implementation of the radical changes in the way in which services will be commissioned in future.

You can read the full paper here or click here for a very brief summary of the proposals made in the paper:

CHOOSING HEALTH - A BRIEFING ON SEXUAL HEALTH IN LONDON

A briefing by the London Health Observatory and the Health Protection Agency

NHS CHLAMYDIA SCREENING SERVICE AT BOOTS PHARMACIES

Boots Pharmacies within the London 'M25' area are to start providing a chlamydia screening service from mid-

November 2005. Click above to view the complete Q&A document.

	BPS Faculty of HIV & Sexual Health Survey of Clinical Psychologists working in Sexual Health Settings On reviewing the results of the survey it was found that the Clinical Psychologists working within SWAGNET have some of the highest ratios of the number of referrals to clinical sessions Click here for results of the survey
	National Recommended Standards for Sexual Health Services The Medical Foundation for HIV & Sexual Health (MedFASH) have been commissioned by the Department of Health to produce national recommended standards for Sexual Health Services. Click here to view the recommended Standards. Click here for further information about the project.

WHAT'S NEW

The following is a list of recent additions to this site. Whenever we publish a document, submit an agenda or minutes, or add anything else to the site, we'll put a notice here with the date that the item has been added. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

27 JUNE 2008

	DRAFT Young Persons Subgroup Agenda 09 JULY 2008
	DRAFT IT Subgroup Agenda 09 JULY 2008
	Sexual Health Promotion Subgroup Agenda 16 JULY 2008
	Research Subgroup Agenda 16 JULY 2008
	Steering Group Minutes 30 APR 2008
	HIV Service Delivery Subgroup 14 MAY 2008
	GUM Service Delivery Subgroup 21 MAY 2008

13 MAY 2008

HIV Service Delivery Subgroup Agenda 14 MAY 2008

16 APR 2008

Steering Group Meeting Agenda 30 APR 2008

06 MAR 2008

Latest Minutes and Agendas for various subgroups have been saved. Click on Subgroups for full listings.

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