11 Sexual health
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 11, Sexual Health, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
GPs have an important role in the management of sexual health problems in partnership with other members of the primary healthcare team and specialists. GPs and primary healthcare teams are ideally placed to take a holistic and integrated approach to sexual health. Education must promote learning that integrates different disciplines within the complex team of the NHS.
Here we have collated key articles from our journals to help you meet the curriculum requirements in this area.
Latest articles
Clinical review - The management of HIV
The role of rapid HIV tests, referring-newly diagnosed patients, useful baseline...
HPV jabs could be extended to boys as DH advisors meet this week
Campaigners have urged the Joint Committee for Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI)...
Underfunding threatens to reverse progress on sexual health, GPs warn
Years of progress in sexual and reproductive health that has seen teenage pregnancy...
GPs almost unanimously back HPV vaccination in boys, poll shows
Nearly all GPs (94%) would want their own sons vaccinated against HPV, a poll of...
NHS in England to trial HIV PrEP drug as Scotland funds routine access
Patients at high risk of contracting HIV will soon be able to access pre-exposure...
GPs should offer HIV tests to all new patients in high prevalence areas, NICE says
GP practices in areas of high HIV prevalence should offer and recommend HIV testing...
GPs urged to be vigilant for syphilis after cases soared 22% in 2015
Cases of syphilis rose by 22% over the last year, and GPs must keep in mind the ways...
GPs call for all boys to receive HPV jab as scheme for gay men launched
GPs have renewed calls for boys to receive the HPV vaccine, as pilot schemes to vaccinate...
GPs must ask about FGM in consultations with at-risk women and girls
GPs have a duty to raise the subject of FGM in their next appointment with a woman...
Exclusive: GP public health services cut by local authorities, poll reveals
One in three GP partners say public health services at their practice have been reduced...
GPs on alert as experts declare outbreak of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea
GPs in northern England have been put on alert after Public Health England (PHE)...
Exclusive: Three quarters of GPs back HPV jabs for boys
Three out of four GPs believe the HPV vaccination programme should be extended to...
