County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

• Practice Development Plans
Ensure that the Postgraduate Medical Education Training programme includes
regular updates on service provision related to sexual health and contraception,
and skills in dealing with young people, as well as medical aspects and
encourage GPs to take up this training. Ensure appropriate training is identified
and made accessible to practice nurses. Provide receptionist training to assist
them in dealing sympathetically with enquiries from young people.
• Specific sessions for contraception
All group practices should be encouraged as the norm to offer contraceptive
services at specific clinics, held at times suitable for young people i.e. after
school or Saturday morning, with discreet waiting areas. GPs may find lunch
times are appropriate. This should be in liaison with other service providers.
• Condoms freely available
Make condoms freely available recurringly 2 , in accordance with a protocol
ensuring adequate explanation for effective use, information and referral to other
services is readily available.
• Saturday morning clinic
Extend End House contraceptive provision available on Saturday morning. This
commenced February 2001.
• Training for other service providers
End House staff would offer training to other groups e.g. youth workers, teachers,
other family planning clinic providers.
• Improve Chester-le-Street Clinic
Modify current service to make it more suitable for young people .
• Central booking
Trusts to develop a central booking system to ensure easy access to family
planning clinics. There have been funding issued around obtaining hardware to
support this. So this may not be a viable option.
• Staff trained to work with young people
Trusts to ensure all staff in family planning clinics have regular training in working
with young people.
• Contraceptive care services
Encourage a shift in name from family planning clinics to contraceptive care
services, young people’s clinics or other broader term.
• Protocol for follow up to emergency contraception
2 Recurring funding has been identified in Durham/Chester-le-St, The Dales and Sedgefield and non-recurring funding in
Derwentside and Darlington. Services currently doing this report increased use by young men, and the pilot scheme in
Durham/Chester-le-Street demonstrated more men using the GP based service than family planning clinics. The Sedgefield
pilot will be in place from 1 st April 2000, usage will be monitored on a quarterly basis, with annual evaluation.
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