Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what routes other than postal screening, GP surgeries and sexual health clinics, are being encouraged for opportunistic chlamydia screening.

The National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) recommends in its guidance that chlamydia screening should be integrated within wider sexual health provisions for young adults, and offered at every opportunity (for example, consultations such as emergency hormonal contraception and abortion referrals). National guidance on integrated care models has been produced by the NCSP.

In addition to screening offered via postal test kits, general practitioner surgeries and genitourinary medicine clinics, commissioners are advised to ensure that screening is available in contraceptive health services, pharmacies and where appropriate, through outreach programmes. The NCSP provides guidance on when and how to best deliver outreach programmes with the aim of ensuring services are based on need, are good value for money and are sustainable.