The FSRH will be holding a focus group on Wednesday January 22nd from 10.30 – 12.30 at the Faculty Offices in Regent’s Park to discuss the role of the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU). The CEU produces the NICE-accredited Clinical Guidelines as well as running the Members’ Enquiry Service. We are keen to hear from […]
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The Week The Women Came
Channel 4’s The Week The Women Came is a behind-the-scenes look at the world of psychosexual counselling, in which the sexual difficulties of two couples are explored and solved. Counsellor Trudy Hannington practises in Yorkshire, and has been working in her field for over ten years. She is Chair of The College of Sexual and […]
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 […]
GUNA Summer Meeting
GUNA Summer Clinical Meeting – Shaping Best Practice GUNA is holding its summer meeting on 28th June at Jury’s Inn Hotel, Islington. The GUNA summer clinical meeting for 2013 is being held on Friday 28th June and focuses on ‘Shaping Best Practice.’ Bringing together some of the UK’s most renowned sexual health practitioners, […]
Venous thrombo-embolism and the COC – an ongoing saga
This ongoing controversy recently resulted in the decision of the French authorities to withdraw the COC containing ethinylestradiol (EE) and cyproterone acetate (CPA) ie Diane 35 from the market. Just published online in the JFPRHC is a joint statement from 26 international experts in contraception, whose conclusion is: ‘Both epidemiological data and clinical trials must […]
Sexual health improvement framework, comments and other News
‘A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England’ sets out the government’s ambitions for improving sexual health. Designed to be used by local organisations when they are looking at how best to provide sexual health services in their area. This includes the need for: a fall in the number of unwanted pregnancies greater efforts to […]
January Journal & News
Hightlights from this month’s Journal include: Romanian women’s struggle to manage their fertility – Editor’s Choice Mihai Horga et al. tell the remarkable story of Romanian women’s struggle to manage their fertility. The sudden reversal of liberal abortion laws in 1966 led to a doubling of the total fertility rate within a year, and then […]
Sexual Abuse in Childhood
By coincidence, the publication of this season’s Journal occurred at the same time as the mushrooming revelations around Jimmy Savile’s abuse of many of his fans over many years. The press are currently talking about 50 or 60 people but he must have come into contact with thousands of vulnerable young, star-struck youngsters in his […]