Wandsworth - Sexual Health Services

Date: 01 August 2008

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•  The under-18 conception rate has decreased by 19% since the 1998 baseline. Wandsworth is amber-red RAG rated.
•  Deprivation in Wandsworth is concentrated in Battersea in the north-east and Roehampton in the south-west. Teenage conceptions follow a similar pattern, with the addition of a hotspot in Nightingale ward in Balham.
•  Wandsworth has 9 community contraceptive clinics, with between one and four sessions weekly, mostly in the afternoon and evening. Sessions take place Monday-Saturday. 3 of the 9 are located in the more deprived Battersea.
•  There are two GUM services, each offering a mix of walk-in and appointments with sessions Monday-Friday.
•  There are four young people’s sessions taking place in Wandsworth each week, on a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.
•  All community contraceptive clinics and young people’s services offer pregnancy testing
•  There is an EHC in pharmacy scheme with participating pharmacies across the borough.
•  There is one condom distribution point at two sessions per week that specifically target young men. There is no comprehensive condom distribution scheme.

Suggestions for future developments
•  Consider the development of a 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

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