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STI training for GPs, PAs & Practice Based Pharmacists - Camden, Islington & Haringey

STI training for GPs, PAs & Practice Based Pharmacists - Camden, Islington & Haringey

Highlights

  • Delivered In-Person

  • 4 hours

  • All levels

Description

Did you know that:

  • Camden, Islington and Haringey have some of the highest HIV and STI prevalence rates in the UK

  • 66% of people would prefer to use their GP for sexual health services1 but GPs and practice nurses report numerous barriers to offering HIV and STI tests

  • Missed opportunities to diagnose HIV and other STIs have major health implications, including significantly increased mortality rates for HIV2

Why is SHIP training relevant to YOU?

  • Do you want to learn quick simple strategies to assess your patients’ sexual health risk?

  • Find out why the use of speculae is plummeting!

  • Are you all too aware of the reasons NOT to offer an HIV test?

  • Do you worry about how to bring up the topic out of the blue?

We will help you become confident in sexual health risk assessment and make meaningful changes to your clinical practice!

Session 1a: STI update for Practice Nurses & Nursing Associates

  • Describe the clinical significance of STIs in general practice

  • Outline strategies for STI testing in primary care, including which swabs to use and when

  • Outline management of STIs in the GP setting, including partner notification guidance

  • Describe patterns of STI risk, and prevention methods

Session 1b: Talking with patients about sex

  • Formulate and use strategies to bring up sexual health in GP consultations, including when people are not expecting it

  • Demonstrate how to take a rapid sexual health risk assessment tailored for the primary care consultation

  • Formulate clinical management plans drawing on rapid sexual health risk assessment

Session 2: Blood borne virus update

  • List the advantages of diagnosing HIV and viral hepatitis in general practice, and the dangers of late diagnoses

  • Recognise the parallels between HIV and viral hepatitis

  • Recognise HIV indicator conditions

  • Overcome barriers to, and normalise, HIV and viral hepatitis testing in your clinical practice

Each session provides you with up-to-date resources to take back to your practice to support your consultations.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who should attend SHIP Training?

    SHIP training is targeted at GPs, physician assistants and practice nurses working in general practice, regardless of their prior experience or interest in sexual health.

  • I have already completed the Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) training course, is there really any benefit in me attending SHIP training as well?

    SHIP training differs from STIF training in so far as SHIP training has a focus on the practicalities of general practice rather than the epidemiology of each organism. Evaluations of SHIP training shows attendees find practical approaches to integrating sexual health within general practice very useful.

  • I have a lot of experience in sexual health provision; will SHIP training be too basic for me?

    SHIP training is suitable for practitioners with a lot or a little experience in sexual health provision. Your existing knowledge & experience will be useful and add to the overall learning experience. The trainers will not waste time trying to teach people things they already know. SHIP could also act as a ‘refresher’ to any previous training – there are new developments in sexual health which will be covered in the sessions – thereby ensuring that you’re up-to-date and more confident in this area.

Dates

  • Camden, Islington and Haringey
      to   (2 sessions)
    Delivered In-Person
    Free

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