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Hounslow - Sexual Health Services
Date: 15 August 2008
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• The under-18 conception rate has decreased by 12% since the 1998 baseline. Hounslow is amber-red RAG rated.
• Under half of wards have 20% most disadvantaged super-output areas. Teenage pregnancy rates are a similarly mixed picture, with four teenage pregnancy hot-spot wards. The relationship between teenage pregnancy and deprivation is not as clear as in other areas; Turnham Green is a teenage pregnancy hotspot but does not have a 20% most disadvantaged super-output area.
• Seven community contraceptive clinics are listed, two of which have young people’s sessions once a week. Each clinic has between 1 and seven sessions weekly, around half of which are accessible to young people in education. No Saturday sessions are listed. Location of the clinics covers the majority of teenage pregnancy hotspots.
• There is one GUM service, with sessions Monday – Friday, only two of which would be accessible to young people in education.
• Other than the two young people’s sessions in community contraceptive clinics, one young people’s clinic is listed, with two sessions each week, both of which would be accessible to young people in education.
• All clinical services offer pregnancy testing and referral for NHS abortion. It is not clear which services (if any) offer access to LARC.
• Free condoms are available from a number of clinical settings but there is no fully developed condom distribution scheme.
• There is a comprehensive 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.
• Consider the development of a clinical service on a Saturday
• Consider altering GUM clinic times to allow young people in education to access them with ease.
• If long acting methods of contraception are not available at all sessions accessed by young people, consider this as a service development.
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