Category: Sexual Health

Adapting sexual and reproductive health services in response to COVID-19: examples of practice

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 14, 2020

by Public Health England (2020)

During the COVID-19 response sexual and reproductive health services have adapted swiftly to ensure continued provision of essential services. This has included, for example, the scale up of online triaging and delivery, and prioritising face-to-face consultations for less well served groups, clinically complex cases and to address safeguarding concerns.
Public Health England is collating practice examples to capture how sexual and reproductive health services have adapted during the COVID-19 response with a particular focus on changes put in place to meet the needs of less well served populations. The practice examples below have been collected and published with no assumption or evidence of effectiveness at this stage. They are intended to briefly capture what has been done locally for the purpose of rapid knowledge translation. The practice examples were collected by PHE from local sexual and reproductive health providers and commissioners. PHE is collecting examples on an ongoing basis.

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Alcohol CVD CYP Healthcare Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings Licensing Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Mortality Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Public Mental Health Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Sexual Health Tobacco & Drugs

What good looks like

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 8, 2019

By The Association of Directors of Public Health (2019)

The Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) and Public Health England (PHE) have co-produced a series of ‘What Good Looks Like’ (WGLL) publications that set out the guiding principles of ‘what good quality looks like’ for population health programmes in local systems.

The WGLL publications are based on the evidence of ‘what works and how it works’ including effectiveness, efficiency, equity, examples of best practices, opinions and viewpoints and, where available a return on investment.

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Local Government Sexual Health

Practical Guidance to SPOT for Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date February 7, 2018

By Public Health England (2017)

The Spend and Outcome Tool (SPOT) was first published in 2014 and gives an overview of spend and outcomes across key areas of business for Local Authorities (LAs). It uses previously published data on both spend and outcomes. It contains three years of data on spend and outcomes for a wide range of measures. SPOT can be used to compare with other geographical areas and a range of benchmarks.
SPOT can be a useful tool for LAs who are interested in comparing spend data on sexual and reproductive health with sexual and reproductive health outcomes. There are some issues which make drawing these comparisons complicated and potentially misleading.

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Alcohol Finance Healthy Settings Sexual Health Tobacco & Drugs

Big cuts planned to public health budgets

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date July 12, 2017

by The King’s Fund (2017)

Central government cuts have forced councils to reduce planned spending on vital public health services such as sexual health clinics and reducing harm from smoking, alcohol and drugs by £85 million, according to new analysis by The King’s Fund.

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Local Government Sexual Health

Sexual health commissioning in local government: building strong relationships, meeting local needs

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 7, 2015

By Local Government Association (2015)

These nine case studies showcase local government experience of commissioning sexual health services since taking over this responsibility in April 2013

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Commissioning Guidance Sexual Health

Sexual and reproductive health in England: a guide to local and national data

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date March 24, 2015

By Public Health England (2014)

This guidance is designed to help health professionals including local government, service providers and commissioners understand the sexual health data that is available across England and how the data can be accessed. It provides an overview of the information available on sexually transmitted infection (STIs), HIV, contraception, conception and abortion.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Sexual Exploitation Sexual Health

Sexual exploitation of children: Ofsted thematic report

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 8, 2015

By Ofsted (2014)

This thematic inspection was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of local authorities’ current response to child sexual exploitation. The report draws on evidence from inspection and case examination in eight local authorities and from the views of children and young people, parents, carers, practitioners and managers.

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Guidance Sexual Health

Chlamydia detection rate: considerations for commissioning

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 6, 2015

By Public Health England (2014)

In this guidance the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) outlines ways to improve the effectiveness and value for money of chlamydia screening in a local authority’s population of 15 to 24 year olds.

The guidance suggests a number of activities to support local authorities to work towards achieving the Department of Health recommended chlamydia detection rate of 2,300 chlamydia diagnoses per 100,000 15 to 24 year olds, a Health Protection indicator within the Public Health Outcomes Framework.

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Guidance Sexual Health

Making it work: a guide to whole system commissioning for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 24, 2014

By Public Health England (2014)

This guidance aims to help commissioners ensure that service users experience integrated, responsive services that deliver the best outcomes. It highlights the importance of putting service users and their needs at the heart of commissioning to ensure they experience integrated, responsive services, and emphasises the importance of tackling the wider determinants of health.

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Child Protection Children CYP Healthcare Exploitation Safeguarding Sexual Health Young People

Understanding the sexual exploitation of boys and young men: a UK scoping study summary of findings

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 8, 2014

By Barnardo’s et al (August 2014)

This research explores the ways in which boys and young men are being sexually exploited, whether boy’s experiences and support needs are different to girls and what services are currently available for boys and young men.

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