Services Database Sexual Health Service (South Gloucestershire Area)

The key priorities for the South Gloucestershire emergency hormonal contraception service are:

• To increase the availability and accessibility of emergency hormonal contraception for young women aged under 25, (including those aged under 16) so as to reduce rates of unplanned pregnancy, in particular the number of under 18 conceptions.
• To increase access to asymptomatic screening of chlamydia (and gonorrhoea) in young
  women aged under 25 by ensuring all patients attending for emergency hormonal
  contraception are offered access to chlamydia/gonorrhoea testing and counselled as to their
  risk of infection. Women aged 16 – 24 should be offered a chlamydia/gonorrhoea test kit
  provided by the ISHS. Patients under 16 should be directed to the ISHS to access testing via
  a ISHS clinic.
  Providing access to opportunistic chlamydia screening is in line with the National Chlamydia
  Screening Programme https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ncsp programmeoverview/ncsp-programme-overview
• To increase patient access to free condoms, and their knowledge of the important role that
  condoms play in reducing the risk of STI transmission and preventing pregnancy.

All pharmacists and staff involved in the provision of the service must attend a training session organised by NHS South Gloucestershire, NHS Bristol, or NHS North Somerset.

Pharmacists providing this service must have completed, and provide a copy of certification of, the CPPE course in Emergency Contraception.

Pharmacists providing this service must have completed, and provide evidence of, level one training in Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults. Examples of such training are that provided by NHS South Gloucestershire, NHS Bristol, NHS North Somerset, or CPPE.