One of the first sexual health nurses in the country to be given the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse (QN) by community nursing charity The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) hails from Lancaster. As reported in the Lancaster Guardian, Sue Capstick is service manager for Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Contraception and Sexual Health (CaSH) Service. […]
Category: Clinical practice
Review: The Menopause Exchange
The Menopause Exchange is an independent organisation founded by Norma Goldman, a pharmacist with a special interest in health promotion, to provide impartial information for patients and health professionals about the menopause. Information is circulated largely through the quarterly newsletters, which are free and through the Menopause Exchange blog. They are also present on Twitter […]
FSRH Welcomes Nurses at a one day conference
The FSRH is delighted that from January 2014 nurses are Eligible to become members of the FSRH and to undertake training for the Nurse Diploma in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care (NDFSRH), the Letters of Competence in both intrauterine devices and subdermal implants and the postgraduate qualification in medical education. The organising committee has […]
Historic News for Nurse Training in SRH
Members of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) have voted overwhelmingly to widen membership to include nurses, paving the way for the development of a new nationally recognised qualification for nurses working in sexual health. This happened last Thursday at an extraordinary general meeting before the Current Choices Conference in London, after which […]
NICE PGDs – Template & Baseline assessment tool
Two implementation tools have now been published to support the patient group directions NICE good practice guidance. These are available from the NICE website at the links below: GPG 2 Patient group directions: baseline assessment tool GPG 2 Patient group directions: template […]
Azithromycin, PGDs and Peanuts.
Did you know that peanuts are not nuts but are part of the soya family? Some formulations of azithromycin contain soya as an excipient. Some services that have drugs supplied by local pharmacies may get different formulations of drugs delivered on different occasions. Does your azithromycin PGD have peanut/soya allergy as a warning, exclusion criteria? […]
Nominations open for the UK Sexual Health Awards 2014
The UK Sexual Health Awards recognise outstanding work in and around sexual health. If you know of any incredible people, projects, services, campaigns, storyline or article – we want to hear about them. Whether you’re nominating yourself, the organisation you work for, someone you work with, or something that has been done by someone else; […]
ESC – 13thCongress and call for applications for project funding
Mark your calendar: 28 till 31 May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal First announcement Check out the first announcement including: programme overview: 8 workshops, 21 congress sessions, 2 debates… abstract submission instructions (deadline 1 December 2013) registration form Register now Please find here an overview of the registration fees. You can now register through the online registration form General […]
World Contraception Day – 26 September 2013
WCD will be using an umbrella theme for this and future years: ‘Its your life; its your future’. This theme has been chosen as it is forward-looking, positive and empowering. There are 3 sub-themes: Your options: where young people can learn about all the contraceptive options available, using a reliable, unbiased source of information. Your […]
Faculty 20th Anniversary Celebration & McGonagall’s Ode!
At the event to celebrate the Faculty’s 20th anniversary, those gathered were regaled, by the invited after-dinner speaker Professor James Drife, with the following ode – available as a podcast for best effect: The Editor felt the Journal’s readers might like to share the experience, although nothing could compare with seeing the performance ‘live’. When […]