STI training for GPs and Physician Associates - LSL

Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham have some of the highest HIV and STI prevalence rates in the UK

66% of people would prefer to use their GP for sexual health services1 but GPs and practice nurses report numerous barriers to offering HIV and STI tests

Missed opportunities to diagnose HIV and other STIs have major health implications, including significantly increased mortality rates for HIV2

Do you want to learn quick simple strategies to assess your patients’ sexual health risk?

Find out why the use of speculae is plummeting!

Are you all too aware of the reasons NOT to offer an HIV test?

Do you worry about how to bring up the topic out of the blue?

Describe the clinical significance of STIs in general practice

Outline strategies for STI testing in primary care, including which swabs to use and when

Outline management of STIs in the GP setting, including partner notification guidance

Describe patterns of STI risk, and prevention methods

Formulate and use strategies to bring up sexual health in GP consultations, including when people are not expecting it

Demonstrate how to take a rapid sexual health risk assessment tailored for the primary care consultation

Formulate clinical management plans drawing on rapid sexual health risk assessment

List the advantages of diagnosing HOV and viral hepatitis in general practice, and the dangers of late diagnoses

Recognise the parallels between HIV and viral hepatitis

Recognise HIV indicator conditions

Overcome barriers to, and normalise, HIV and viral hepatitis testing in your clinical practice