Intersexion Issue 38, July 2011

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Issue 38 • July 2011
Sexual Health & Wellbeing Action Plan –
Latest Developments
In the first of a regular feature, Adam Jones updates on the latest
developments towards the delivery of the Sexual Health & Wellbeing
Action Plan for Wales 2010-2015.
T
he Welsh Government’s Sexual
Health & Wellbeing Action Plan
for Wales 2010-2015 was released
in November 2010, and features a wide
range of initiatives aimed at improving
the sexual health of the population
of Wales.
The action plan
highlights four key
action areas:
1. D
eveloping a culture to support
sexual health and wellbeing
2. Better prevention
3. D
elivering modern sexual health
services
4. S
trengthening health intelligence
and research
Keeping this in mind, and with the aim
of keeping practitioners updated on the
progress of the Action Plan, Intersexion
will from now on include quarterly
updates on the current work towards the
wider objectives of the Sexual Health &
Wellbeing Action Plan for Wales 20102015. As this is the first update, this
includes coverage of developments since
the launch of the Action Plan through to
June 2011.
The All Wales Sexual Health Network
will continue to strengthen its role as a
participatory network for practitioners
working in sexual health. The Network
will be leading on or contributing to
a wide range of the action points, and
this will include contributions from,
and constant communication with, the
network membership. Network members
will be invited to comment on certain
draft pieces of work via email, so it is
more important than ever that each
sexual health service in Wales has at
least one nominated member of the All
Wales Sexual Health Network.
The All Wales HIV Network will develop
further throughout the year, with a
number of proposals for development
being considered at present. An example
idea is the potential development of a
‘Positive Speakers Programme’, which
could see volunteers trained to talk about
living with HIV to their peers and ‘at risk’
populations. It is clear that the proposed
structure for Positive Participation
Forums has not taken off as anticipated,
so the Network management will revisit
this in an effort to re-invigorate the
desire for constructive, open forums
for service users to feedback on their
experiences of healthcare and incidents
of stigma and discrimination.
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The newsletter for the All Wales Sexual Health Network
In this issue…
Sexual Health & Wellbeing Action
Plan – Latest Developments
Page 1
There’s an App for that??! Sexual
Health Mobile Phone Apps
Page 3
Happening in Wales – community
pharmacist training; sexual health
clinic for homeless women; the
role of a sexual health educator;
sex and relationship education
toolkit produced.
Page 4
Public Health Wales Good
Practice Scheme – Focus on
Aims & Objectives
Page 6
New Publications &
Forthcoming Events
Page 8
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Editorial
Thank you for reading Issue 38 of
Intersexion. It has been yet another
busy quarter for sexual health in
Wales. In this issue, we have the first
of a regular series of quarterly updates
regarding the ongoing progress of the
Sexual Health & Wellbeing Action Plan
2010-2015.
We also take a look at the world of
mobile technology, as some practitioners
may find a use for their iPhones/iPads in
their work lives as well as in their social
lives. Of course, there may still be some
‘hidden gems’ that I have not been made
aware of, so if you use a smartphone and
have found something useful to help in
your working life, why not let me know
for future issues of Intersexion. As I
have no personal experience of Android/
Blackberry/Windows Mobile smartphones
I am particularly keen to hear from users
of these platforms who have encountered
something useful, as I would love to
cover these technologies in future issues.
We hear from practitioners across Wales
on their latest service developments, and
I’m glad to say that we have coverage of
very varied services in this issue, which
just emphasises the diverse nature of
sexual health practice in Wales.
The Public Health Wales Good Practice
Scheme continues to receive submissions
at a steady pace, and sexual health has
seen the most submissions in recent
months. In this issue, we focus on the
development of aims and objectives for
a project.
Happy reading and please email me to let
me know what you think about this issue
or to suggest ideas for future content
coverage. I’m keen to include your
feedback in future issues – after all, this
is created by you, for you.
Adam Jones
All Wales Sexual Health Network
Coordinator
[email protected]
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An All Wales Sexual Health Advisory
Group will shortly be established to
report on the progress made on the
implementation of the Sexual Health and
Wellbeing Action Plan for Wales 20102015. The Advisory Groups has the remit:
and developing structured training
programmes for community workers.
This work will be progressing in the
coming months and we will of course
look to collaborate with other providers
where appropriate.
• To maintain supervision of the sexual
health of the population of Wales;
At the time of writing, the development
of All Wales C-Card Standards
is nearing completion, and by the
publication of this issue these are likely
to have been cascaded to current C-Card
Scheme Coordinators for a small-scale
consultation. Viewpoints will be collected
by the end of the July, with the final
version being completed in August, in
time for publication in September. The
aim of these standards is to develop
a consistent, national approach to
C-Card delivery across Wales, whilst still
respecting local schemes individuality
e.g. maintaining local branding.
• To advise the Minister on progress made
on implementation of the Sexual Health
and Wellbeing Action Plan for Wales;
• To advise the Minister and WAG
officials of further opportunities: to
improve sexual health and wellbeing;
to deliver services more effectively and
efficiently;
• To provide annual report regarding
above for Welsh Assembly Government.
The Advisory Group will work within the
parameters that interventions or actions
taken in implementing the Sexual Health
and Wellbeing Action Plan are based.
This will include robust epidemiological
or clinical evidence, or where this does
not exist, actions are based on the best
available evidence together with a broad
consensus on best practice advised through
relevant professional bodies. Actions taken
offer best value for money in the use of
resources whilst the actions remain within
the context of other policy initiatives.
The Chair of the All Wales Sexual Health
Advisory Group will be Dr Marion Lyons,
Programme Lead for Sexual Health and
Blood Borne Viruses, Public Health Wales
and the Advisory Group will feature 18
representatives from professional and
statutory bodies and the Third Sector.
The Advisory Group will not replace or
duplicate the work of the All Wales Sexual
Health Network Advisory Board, as it has
a very different and wider remit of work.
The All Wales Sexual Health Network
will look to explore with young people
how better to involve them with sexual
health service development, where
appropriate. There will be further
coverage of this particular point in the
next issue of Intersexion.
The management team of the All
Wales Sexual Health Network have
met with representatives from the fpa
about the possibility of collaborative
work on action points such as
developing guidance for delivering
SRE in community based settings
The review of existing sexual health
information commenced late last year,
by inviting network members to complete
‘Resources Review Forms’ where they
could explain why they use the resource
and the positive/negative aspects of it. A
great number of responses were received
from members of the network, and we
welcome further opinions on resources
in the coming months. To support this
action point, a new section is to be added
to the All Wales Sexual Health Network
website. Entitled ‘Sexual Health Topics’,
the section will feature dedicated pages
on areas of sexual health, including:
• Abortion;
• Contraception;
• Fertility;
• Pregnancy;
• Relationships;
• Sex & the law;
• Sex and Relationships Education (SRE);
• Sex Therapy & Counselling;
• Sex Work;
• Sexual Abuse;
• Sexual Dysfunction;
• Sexual Health in the over 50s;
• Sexuality;
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs);
• Talking about Sex with Young People;
• Teenage Pregnancy.
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These topic-based pages will include
relevant statistics, guidelines, current
research, downloadable resources and
links to other relevant organisations.
We would welcome opinions on this
suggested list of topics, and of course if
you have produced or used something
that others may find useful on any of
these areas that you are willing to share,
please email them to Adam.Jones2@
wales.nhs.uk.
Teenage Pregnancy is a strong priority
area for the Action Plan. A ‘task &
finish group’ has been established to
work on this area. The current proposals
from the group include targeting repeat
pregnancies in teenagers – 20% of
teenage pregnancies arise in teenagers
who have had a previous pregnancy. The
group suggest that if 50% of this cohort
received contraception pre-discharge
from termination services/delivery units,
teenage pregnancies would be reduced by
10%. In the second year of the Teenage
Pregnancy work, the task and finish
group suggest implementing the NICE
Guidance to children-in-care in targeted
high-prevalence areas.
In addition, Public Health Wales has
acquired Office of National Statistics
data by ward for teenage pregnancies for
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the last ten years. This is being analysed
by Bangor University who will report
shortly. Once available, this data will be
made available via the All Wales Sexual
Health Network website.
Regarding surveillance of sexual health
data, a task and finish group has been
established to address the replacement of
KC60 data, collected in the GUM service,
with SHHAPT (Sexual Health and HIV
Activity Property Type) codes – DSCN
(Data Set Change Notice) has been signed
off by WIGSB. (All services to adopt new
SHHAPT codes from July 1st).
The KT31 is being replaced in England
with SRHAD (Sexual and Reproductive
Health Activity Dataset) codes. Wales
needs to ensure that the replacement
in Wales is not only applicable to the
services delivered in Wales but that
the data collected is comparable to
that collected in England. The task and
finish group is currently determining the
appropriate way forward for Wales. The
group is also considering the approach
required to ensure the collection of
sexual health data from general practice.
A task and finish group has also been
established to develop and consult on a
service specification and care pathways
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for sexual health, including options for
delivery through primary care. This group
will produce a document which will set a
small number of key outcomes-focussed
and measurable quality standards for
sexual health services covering the whole
patient care pathway. The paper will
also define the service specification and
care pathway including management of
Chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections.
This specification proposes to engage all
sexual health services and defines the key
roles of primary care and pharmacies.
Central to delivery of these services is the
implementation of the combined NAAT
test for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea which
will be available across Wales from
April 2012.
As you can see, there has been a lot
of progress since the Action Plan was
released, but as ever if you have any
queries or comments please email adam.
[email protected]. It is anticipated
that all documentation related to the
Action Plan will be uploaded to the All
Wales Sexual Health Network & emailed
to the membership as soon as they are
available, so please do keep checking
the website for new content and ensure
that the Network has your current email
address for email updates.
There’s an App for that?!
Sexual Health Mobile Phone Apps
Mobile telephones are becoming
a growing marketplace for health
promotion and information
through the development of
‘apps’. Here, Adam Jones looks
at a selection of iPhone & iPad
‘apps’ that are currently available
for sexual health from around the
world, and previews a potential
development here in Wales.
When Apple launched their first iPhone
in 2007, little did the world know what
impact mobile phone applications would
have on entertainment, information
and in the workplace. It is likely that
many people still assume that mobile
phone applications are all about gaming
and entertainment, yet there are many
applications which could help enhance
sexual health promotion and practitioner
development.
Alongside standard productivity and
calendar apps that practitioners may find
of use, there has in the last 12 months
been a surge in good quality, healthfocussed Apps produced by credible
organisations. After downloading and
using a number of free sexual health
& general health apps from across the
world, here I share my experiences of
using one of these apps. I also inform
readers of two Apps that have been
developed as electronic versions of
the widely used medical guidebooks
‘Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Second Edition’ and ‘BNF
61’, which practitioners may want to
consider as part of a ‘paperless’ future.
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Like all marketplaces though, which an
App Store essentially is, there are a lot
of lower-quality offerings, so caution is
advised. In all cases I would recommend
reading the App description and gaining
an understanding of where the App was
developed and for what purpose (i.e is it
British/American/Australian etc?).
(Please note: these applications are
in the English language only. None
of this article should be taken as
an endorsement of any particularly
application or operating platform,
and readers should treat the article for
information only.)
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HIV iChart
Developer: Maxine Dunham (eMedFusion)
Current Version: 1.0.0
Cost: Free
This App was commissioned by
the University of Liverpool’s HIV
Pharmacology Group. It is used to
investigate interactions between antiHIV medicines and other drugs a patient
may be taking, presenting the results in a
‘traffic light’ format with a short summary
of the anticipating interaction. This is a
very useful and informative application,
with obvious practical uses for those
working with HIV+ patients and their
condition management. There is also an
Android version of this App available, and
the functionality is also available on the
website www.hiv-druginteractions.org.
Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology, Second Edition
Developer: MedHand International
Current Version: 1.5.1
Cost: £34.99
Like its book counterpart, the Oxford
Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
contains advice on the diagnoses
and management of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology-related conditions. It
functions in much the same way as
a regular E-Book, and appearance is
very similar to the physical book form.
The App is expensive in comparison
to other apps, but at the current price
falls in at a lower level than the RRP
of the book. There are other ‘Oxford
Handbooks’ published as Apps too, which
may be worth medical consultants and
doctors looking into, such as the ‘Oxford
Handbook of General Practice.’
British National Formulary 61
Developer: MedHand International
Current Version: 2.1.1
Cost: £26.49
Similar to the above App, the BNF
61 is an electronic transfer of the
physical guidebook to medicines, and
is priced cheaper than the physical
counterpart. Pharmacists of course need
no introduction to the usefulness of
this book in their day-to-day working
lives. The BNF 62 App is anticipated to
be released in November 2011 (slightly
later than the book version), so potential
purchasers may want to consider waiting
until then to ensure they are purchasing
the latest edition. BNF for Children 2010
- 2011 is also available as an App.
So what about Wales?
Developing a Sexual
Health Information
Application for Wales
Amongst the current ideas for sexual
health service delivery in Wales is
the development of a mobile phone
application. Initial discussions about
this idea have considered what the ‘App’
would feature if created. At a basic level,
the implementation of location-based
searches to guide the user to their nearest
sexual health service is a pivotal benefit
to having and utilising an App, and this
would be seen as the primary focus of
the app (a good example of this idea in
action comes from New York, the ‘NYC
Condom Finder’ App, initiated by the
NYC Health Department). This function
would see service users searching for
such locations as sexual health clinics,
their nearest C-Card access point, or
searching by what their requirements are,
such as contraception, pregnancy testing,
HIV testing. Alongside this we envisage
a bilingual glossary of sexual health
terminology.
Taking the idea further, we could see
audio/video footage included, for example
consultants explaining what forms of
contraception there are available.
At this stage, the idea is still in the very
early planning stages, and a working
group will be established in the coming
months, if the development of an app is
considered an effective idea to go ahead
with. In the meantime, we would be
grateful to hear of practitioners initial
thoughts on this idea and these opinions
can be shared with me at anytime via
email to [email protected].
What’s happening in Wales?
‘Caerphilly Quality Approach to Sex & Relationships Education’ Toolkit
Kathryn McGuiness, Sexual
Health Educator from Aneurin
Bevan Health Board, discusses
a new toolkit for SRE
‘Caerphilly launched its new Quality
Approach to SRE Toolkit at the end of
March at the Healthy Schools Conference
at the Maes Manor Hotel Blackwood.
This policy and practice document
provides a clear & comprehensive
framework for SRE work and ensures a
consistent quality of service is provided
from all partners in Caerphilly who are
involved in the delivery of SRE to our
children & young people.
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A comprehensive Toolkit Training
programme will be rolled out to
professionals in Caerphilly to support
the document. The training will be
provided by the Caerphilly Sexual
Health Group Aneurin Bevan Health
Board- Resources for practitioners to use
with the document are included on an
accompanying CD- ROM.
This Toolkit was developed as a
South- East Wales project by a Team
of staff from Blaenau Gwent, Cardiff,
Monmouthshire, Newport & Rhondda
Cynon Taff. Caerphilly would like to
give a big thank you to Monmouthshire
for letting us use their version of the
Toolkit to develop our Caerphilly one.
The Caerphilly Toolkit was developed by
the Caerphilly Sexual Health Strategy
Group & was funded by the Caerphilly
Children and Young People’s Partnership.
For further information please
don’t hesitate to contact
Kathryn McGuiness, Sexual Health
Educator, Aneurin Bevan Health
Board on 07786 264121 or
01443 875735
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What’s happening in Wales?
Community Pharmacists Training for Delivering
National Enhanced Service for POEC (Progesterone-Only
Emergency Contraception)
The All-Wales Emergency
Hormonal Contraception National
Enhanced Service commenced in
April 2011. Sarah Hickman of
the Wales Centre for Pharmacy
Professional Education explains
the National Competency
& Training Framework for
pharmacists delivering the
National Enhanced Service:
‘Providing the Emergency
Hormonal Contraception
National Enhanced Service
requires pharmacists to complete
four elements:
1. To be up to date in their
underpinning knowledge
in Sexual and Reproductive
Health;
2. Attend a face to face session, led
by a Sexual and Reproductive
Health Consultant on the service
delivery under the Patient Group
Direction;
3. Complete a Level 2 Child
Protection Training Course;
4. Successful completion of a
2 hour online knowledge
competence assessment.
by Consultants in
Sexual and Reproductive
Health from across Wales.
Recognition of common sexually
transmitted infections is also covered,
and again signposting to local services is
incorporated into the training event.
Pharmacists have welcomed the
structured ‘All-Wales’ approach to the
training as it enables them to deliver the
service across Wales, regardless of which
LHB they undertook the training in. They
feel that this approach has improved the
delivery of the service, removing the
need to register with each LHB.
The training and assessment is provided
by the Wales Centre for Pharmacy
Professional Education (WCPPE) which is
part of the Welsh School of Pharmacy.
They are required to attend a face to
face session covering the knowledge and
skills required to make EHC supply under
a patient group direction. The learning
outcomes of this session include the aims
of the EHC service and its place in the
overall NHS Family Planning Services,
patient consent and confidentiality
- especially as applied to females
under 16 years. Signposting to further
contraceptive care and key sexual health
messages are an aspect covered and
support for this has been provided
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Cardiff Integrated
Sexual Health offer
Clinic for Homeless
Women
Sandra Smith from Cardiff
& Vale University Health
Board writes:
‘We now operate a clinic once a
month for homeless women which
is a “one stop shop” aimed at
providing:
• Sexual health screening;
• Contraception;
For further information about
this training framework, or the
other work of the Wales Centre for
Pharmacy Professional Education,
please email [email protected].
• Hep B vaccine;
• Counselling and support.
They are also provided with a
takeout lunch and a toiletries pack
when they attend as an incentive.
This service will now be extended
in July to women working as
escorts and in the future we plan to
do the same with the Community
Addictions Unit.’
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What’s happening in Wales?
Sexual Health Educator delivering SRE in Cardiff settings
Stewart Attridge, Sexual Health
Educator from Cardiff & Vale Local
Public Health Team, explains his
role and the service it provides:
‘Cardiff and Vale Public Health Team
established the Sexual Health Educator
(SHE) role in 2008 in partnership with
Cardiff and Vale University Health
Board. The SHE is a sexual health
advisor seconded from the Integrated
Sexual Health department. Their role
involves providing specialist lessons
to young people in educational or
voluntary settings about contraception
and sexual health, and these lessons
should complement the school’s existing
PSE syllabus for Sex and Relationships
Education. The SHE ensures that lessons
are interactive, using appropriate
learning methods and the young people
are able to receive high quality, factual
information in a fun and interesting way.
To date 1,385 young people have taken
part in SRE lessons, at 15 schools and 5
voluntary settings.
The SHE role has recently been audited to
demonstrate the quality and effectiveness
of this approach to delivering SRE.
The auditing methodology was via a
self completed questionnaire issued to
teachers of the class being taught by the
SHE. In total 15 responses were collated
from teachers at schools/colleges within
the Cardiff locality. It should be noted
that it was not appropriate for all teachers
to complete an audit questionnaire.
Questionnaires were not completed if
the same lesson was being repeated to
another class within the same school.
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00% (n=15) felt the SHE lesson met
the objectives of the School’s/college’s
PSE policy
•1
00% (n=15) felt the teaching strategies
deployed in the lesson were appropriate
for the age group being taught
•1
00% (n=15) stated the pupils were
interested in the specialist SHE lesson
When requested to provide any other
comments these were some of the
responses:
“I think before the session the students
thought they had all the information they
wanted. I think they all learnt something
from the session”
“Excellent session, children thoroughly
enjoyed”
“Very informative and delivered in a very
relaxed and appropriate manner”
“Very informative and well presented.
All pupils engaged considering it was a
Friday afternoon”
“It would be fantastic to be able to have
Stuart available for every lesson which
would require more funding for his
availability”
Planned future developments to the SHE
role are proposals to include a series
of lessons aimed at addressing more
sociological aspects of sexuality and
sex. Further analysis of data collated by
the SHE examining pupils knowledge of
sexual health in Key Stages 3 & 4 has been
published in the June edition of the British
Journal of School Nursing 6 (5) 2011
For more information please
contact: Stewart Attridge, Sexual
Health Educator, Cardiff and the
Vale Public Health Team on 029
2055 6029
If Stewart is unavailable please
contact: Cheryl Joscelyne, Senior
Public Health Practitioner, Cardiff
and the Vale Public Health Team
on 029 2055 6015
Public Health Wales Good Practice Scheme
The Public Health Wales Good
Practice Scheme is an approach
that supports all practitioners,
organisations and sectors
involved health promotion, health
improvement and community health
development initiatives in the fields
of sexual health, nutrition and
physical activity and mental health
promotion. The scheme consists of a
good practice database, quality mark,
awards and provision of support.
It rewards good practice and will
provide a systematic approach to
sharing information about initiatives
on the scheme in order to prevent
duplication, enhance learning
and enable decisions about what
initiatives to adopt or develop.
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Focus on....Aims & Objectives
In the first of a series of brief
focused articles, Intersexion looks
at the importance of Aims &
Objectives in the planning of an
initiative.
When developing a project, aims and
objectives are a pivotal part of directing
the project and informing others (for
example service users, colleagues,
funders) on what the project is about and
what the project wants to achieve. Aims
and objectives are also an important
point of reference when it comes to
performing an evaluation later on in
your project. It is useful to develop aims
and objectives which follow SMART
principles – that they are Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and
Timely. Creating aims and objectives
which are vague, unrealistic and overambitious would be of no benefit to the
service or service users.
It is important to recognise the difference
between what is an aim and what is an
objective. An aim is a general statement
of intent indicating what you/your project
is hoping to achieve, whereas an objective
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Public Health Wales Good Practice Scheme
is a specific account of what will be done
in order to achieve the aim. Objectives
can be timescaled where appropriate. It is
important to note the likelihood that not
all of your objectives set at the initiation
of the project will be achieved – this
emphasises the importance of constant
monitoring and evaluation.
Below are some example aims and
objectives that exist within the Public
Health Wales Networks. We hope that
these prove useful case studies for
projects in development.
Aim of the Public
Health Wales Good
Practice Scheme
“To develop a knowledge base and
infrastructure in order to implement
and strengthen strategies and
actions to improve mental health
promotion, nutrition, physical
activity and sexual health in Wales.”
Here you can see that the aim
is specific in telling the reader
that the Scheme will ‘develop a
knowledge base and infrastructure...
in Wales’. It is realistic in so much
that this knowledge base and
infrastructure will contribute to
improving the relevant topic areas.
The measurability, achievability and
timescale references appear in the
objectives.
Aim of the All Wales
Sexual Health Network
“The aim is for the Public Health Wales
to manage the All Wales Sexual Health
Network by:
• Promoting promising sexual health
practice and increasing public and
professional understanding of sexual
health issues
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roviding a discussion forum for a
range of agencies and individuals
involved in promoting better sexual
health
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aking a proactive role in the
promotion of good practice in
promoting better sexual health
•P
romoting and strengthening local
sexual health service networks.”
This aim tells the reader who is
responsible for the management of the
Network (Public Health Wales), and rather
than be a single statement of intent as
the Good Practice Scheme aim is, the aim
of the All Wales Sexual Health Network
is presented as four bullet points. Time
scaling is not included in the aim as the
Network is considered an ongoing piece of
work. This aim does clearly state what the
Network exists to achieve.
Objectives of the All Wales
HIV Network
The All Wales HIV Network will:
• Provide an accessible, accurate and
current quality-assured internet resource
• Support the delivery of regular Positive
Participation Forum meetings across
Wales
• Reduce the discrimination and stigma
associated with living with HIV
• Identify the needs of people living with
HIV in Wales
• Provide access to accurate and timely
information relevant to those living
with HIV in Wales
• Help to identify, and engage with, ‘hard
to reach’ communities and individuals
• Help to guide interventions and
prevention programmes that address
risk-taking behaviours associated with
HIV
• Establish collaborative links between
organisations that work for people
living with HIV
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• Identify clear links with other HIV
Networks, nationally, UK-wide and
internationally.
• Help to inform the work of the HIV
Advisory Group
• Provide regular opportunities for
dialogue between service providers and
service users
• Promote the work, values and aims of
the All Wales HIV Network, whenever
the opportunity arises.
Above is an example of objectives
developed at the onset of the All Wales
HIV Network. These are very specific
details about the work that the HIV
Network will do, and will be referred
back to in other work and evaluations
as appropriate.
Good Practice
Scheme
Factsheets
Coming Soon
A series of downloadable factsheets
to support practitioners in their
project planning and development
are to be produced by the Public
Health Wales Networks team. The
factsheets will mirror the questions
that are asked of initiatives in the
Public Health Wales Good Practice
Scheme Questionnaire. They will
define what is meant by some of
the terminology included in the
Public Health Wales Good Practice
Scheme, provide case studies and
examples and link to further reading
& resources. The first factsheets
will be released soon and will be
made available through the Network
websites.
For any queries regarding the
Public Health Wales Good Practice
Scheme please email adam.jones2@
wales.nhs.uk. Guidance documents
relating to the scheme are available
to download from the All Wales
Sexual Health Network website.
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Intersexion
Issue 37
Interse
ion
Events
New Publications
Equalities Training –
Sexual Orientation
& Religion & Belief,
Thursday 22nd September
2011, Ty Penalta Caerphilly
• network with delegates involved
with sexual health care delivery from
outside the NHS
This Barnardo’s Cymru Diversity Project
training aims to raise awareness and
confidence in engaging and working
with young people on the subjects of
sexual orientation and religion and
belief. The training is for professionals
working with young people of Caerphilly
(11 - 25yrs old).
More details about the content of
the day will appear on the All Wales
Sexual Health Network website nearer
to the date.
The training will be in the form of 2
interactive half-day sessions, with focus
on religion & belief in the morning
session and focus on sexual orientation
in the afternoon session.
For full details and the booking form,
please see the ‘News & Events’ section
of the All Wales Sexual Health Network
website, call 01633 612712, or email
[email protected] or
[email protected].
7th Welsh Integrated
Sexual Health Meeting,
Wednesday 5th October
2011, Village Hotel,
Swansea
The Welsh Integrated Sexual Health
(WISH) meetings aims to bring health
care professionals involved in the
delivery of sexual health care in Wales
together at a meeting where they can:
• enhance their existing knowledge,
• be exposed to areas they are
historically not familiar with,
• network with colleagues from other
areas of Wales
• network with health care professionals
from other backgrounds
in order to facilitate and promote
new approaches to the challenges
practitioners are faced with in sexual
health in Wales.
WASCH Meeting,
Saturday 12th November
2011, Medical School,
Cardiff
The WASCH (Welsh Association of Sexual
and Contraceptive Health) has a meeting
in the Medical School in Cardiff on
Saturday 12th November 2011 where the
theme will be “Young People” with talks
on the contraceptive and sexual health
problems associated with the young. The
event is open to all practitioners working
in sexual health. The programme for the
day and further details for registration
will be made available on the All Wales
Sexual Health Network nearer the time.
The cost will be £20 for the Saturday
morning meeting which will include
refreshments and a short AGM. For
further information about this event,
please contact Ruth Frazer via email to
[email protected].
HIV in Primary Care 2011 Edition
now available
MedFASH have
revised and
updated their
booklet ‘HIV
in Primary
Care: an
essential
guide for
GPs, practice
nurses
and other
members
of the primary healthcare team’ by Dr
Sara Madge, Dr Philippa Matthews, Dr
Surinder Singh and Dr Nick Theobald.
The booklet is available to download
from MedFASH’s website (www.
medfash.org.uk) and hard copies can
be ordered at a price of £10 per copy.
New BASSH Guidelines
Published
New BASSH Guidelines on ‘The
Management of Adult and Adolescent
Complainants of Sexual Assault’ have
been published, as well as ‘UK National
Guideline for the Management of
Gonorrhoea in Adults’. Copies of these
guidelines are available on the BASSH
website at www.bashh.org/guidelines
About the All Wales Sexual Health Network
The Network was set up in 2000 as part of the Action Plan to implement the Strategic
Framework for Promoting Sexual Health in Wales, and is managed by Public Health
Wales. If you would like more information about the Network, please contact:
Adam Jones, All Wales Sexual Health Network Coordinator
14 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LJ
Tel: 029 2022 7744, Email: [email protected]
Public Health Wales is responsible for producing and distributing the Intersexion newsletter but has
outsourced the distribution of the Newsletter to RMG: Research and Marketing Group. If you are not
happy for your contact details to be passed on to Research and Marketing Limited for the distribution of
the Intersexion newsletter please contact Public Health Wales at 14 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9LJ or
telephone 02920 227744..
The deadline for submissions to the next issue of Intersexion will be Monday 5th September 2011.
Further information about how to submit content to Intersexion is available via the All Wales Sexual
Health Network website’s Intersexion page.
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