SHIP submits written evidence to Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into sexual health

The Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP) Health Integration Team (HIT) has submitted written evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into sexual health.

On Friday 21 September 2018, SHIP convened an open meeting in Bristol on preparing sexual health services for the challenge of antibiotic resistant (AMR) bacteria, co-hosted by SHIP and British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

Around 50 clinicians, health professionals, Public Health England employees, academics, laboratory staff, industry representatives attended, mostly from the South West area, but also participants from Plymouth, Brighton, London and Cambridge and Wales.

The written evidence gives a brief summary of key areas discussed during the meeting and highlight challenges and potential solutions for sexual health services relating to their theme of improving STI testing and responding to antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections.

Read SHIP’s written evidence submission.