County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document
County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document
County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document
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Develop a protocol for the consistent follow up of young people using emergency<br />
contraception including the provision of information about local services for young<br />
people, printed information about contraception and accessing services, and the<br />
offer of an appointment with a local clinic/service.<br />
• Out of hours provision<br />
Publicise access to emergency contraception via NHS Direct.<br />
• Emergency contraception from nurses<br />
Explore protocol development for provision of emergency contraception by<br />
Community Nursing and Family Planning Staff.<br />
• New emergency contraception<br />
Encourage all prescriptions for emergency contraception to use the newly<br />
available form which is more efficient and has fewer side effects.<br />
• Dedicated young people’s services<br />
Ensure there is at least one service per PCG (ideally per main population centre)<br />
dedicated to young people, at a suitable time, with staff trained to work with<br />
young people and systematic user involvement in assessing the quality of<br />
service.<br />
• Publicity for contraceptive services<br />
Organise the collection, updating, printing and regular widespread distribution of<br />
information about sexual health advice, pregnancy testing and counselling and<br />
contraceptive provision within the PCG area.<br />
• Co-ordinated data collection<br />
Agree with all providers a co-ordinated approach to data collection in relation to<br />
uptake of contraceptive services by young people, in order to track improvements<br />
in relation to specific groups such as young men.<br />
• Reinforce condom use<br />
Support general awareness raising about appropriate contraceptive use for<br />
young people, particularly reinforcing the profile of condoms (properly used) as<br />
contraception as well as for protection from sexually transmitted infection.<br />
• Training for school nurses<br />
Ensure all school nurses are appropriately family planning trained e.g. level three<br />
training programme ‘Sexual Health’ accredited through the Tees and Region<br />
Open College Network. To ensure competence of those providing the service.<br />
• Drop in time maintained<br />
Ensure school nursing services are able to sustain ‘drop in time’ in each<br />
secondary school as a source of sexual health information and advice among<br />
other things. There is evidence that the role of school nurses can be effective.<br />
• Pilot condom distribution by school nurses<br />
Seek schools which are prepared to pilot school nurses distributing condoms in<br />
accordance with a suitable protocol.<br />
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