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Hillingdon - Sexual Health Services
Date: 16 August 2008
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• The under-18 conception rate has decreased by 1% since the 1998 baseline. Hillingdon is red RAG rated.
• There are only small areas of Hillingdon which number among the 20% most disadvantaged areas. By contrast around half of the borough has wards with conception rates in the top 50%. The highest rates can be seen in the far north, but with Heathrow and surrounding areas also being hot-spot areas.
• There are a number of community contraceptive services listed, two of which also have young people’s sessions. Many of the clinics do not offer sessions every week.
• One central GUM service is listed. No clinic times are given, and young people are encouraged to telephone for an appointment.
• There are a number of young people’s sessions located across the borough, some of which offer a clinical service and others which offer condoms, advice, information and pregnancy testing.
• The community contraceptive clinics and young people’s sessions offer pregnancy testing and referral for abortion and ante natal care.
• As described above there are a number of advice services which offer free condoms but there is no fully developed condom distribution scheme.
• There is a limited EHC in pharmacy scheme.
Suggestions for future developments
• Consider the development of a full condom distribution scheme and distribution of condoms across a range of settings accessed by young people
• If long acting methods of contraception are not available at all sessions accessed by young people, consider this as a service development.
• Ensure that GUM clinic times are publicised and that young people are sign-posted into the service
• Given limited access to both community contraceptive and young people’s sessions, ensure that service publicity is up to date and well-publicised.
• Consider reviewing community contraceptive sessions to allow for services to take place weekly rather than fortnightly
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