SEXUAL HEALTH QUERIES AND EXPLANATIONS

Following roll-out of the SEXUAL HEALTH LOCAL ENHANCED SERVICE there have been several queries, which we can now help clarify:

1) Where do I get the patient consent/result form for PREGNANCY TESTING?:

Unfortunately the manufacturers no longer produce the booklets. We have requested that the PCT produce their own (self-carbonated as there should be one copy for patient, one for pharmacy records and one (with consent) for the patient's GP).

IN THE MEANTIME A TEMPLATE FORM CAN BE DOWNLOADED BY CLICKING HERE You'll then need to print 3 copies and use carbon paper for now.

2) What About the Issue of Urine Pots and Clinical Waste?

We have taken advice from the PCT's infection control experts:

Having taken advise fro the community infection control nurses. I see no reason why the present best practice cannot continue, put the remaining urine down the toilet and dispose of the bottle in the general waste container with one proviso is that all personnel details are removed from the container either by removal of the label or black marking the information out. The local authority waste collection are happy to have nappies and incontinence bags placed in the general waste If there is only a small number of containers each week and the chemist has a sharps bin in use that they place the plastic container in there so it goes for incineration. Either can be used.

3) On the Claim form there is nowhere to indicate which treatment was given?

This will be corrected in further reprints. For now, please write on the form if a treatment other than Azithromycin was supplied.