Genito-urinary Medicine

(asked on 24th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to update his Department's report, entitled A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England, published in March 2013.


Answered by
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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 1st November 2017

Issues around the sexual and reproductive health workforce are being considered as part of work being taken forward by Health Education England’s Sexual Health Workforce Task and Finish Group.

The delivery of open access sexual health services is mandated for all local authorities. Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles have been developed by Public Health England (PHE) to support local authorities, public health leads and other interested parties to monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their population and the contribution of local public health related systems. The Department closely monitors the range of indicators and outcomes at national level.

In 2016, PHE undertook a survey of local authorities, NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to highlight areas of challenge within sexual health commissioning. The survey findings form the basis of an action plan published in August 2017 within the PHE report, ‘Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV: A Review of Commissioning’ report. As part of the action plan, PHE will take forward a range of activities aimed at strengthening commissioning. These actions include providing evidence and data to commissioners to support commissioning, and the monitoring of outcomes, and the building of capacity and capability in sexual and reproductive health commissioning.

The Department's publication, ‘A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England’, is kept under review. There are no plans to update it at this time.

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