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Sexual and reproductive health services in Oxfordshire - public survey 2023
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We would like to hear your views about Oxfordshire sexual and reproductive health services.
Your views will help us to understand what aspects of services work well, and what could be better. This will help to inform any future changes to local sexual and reproductive health services in the county. We want future Oxfordshire sexual and reproductive services (OSHS) to reflect what you want and need.
Access to free, confidential and non-judgemental sexual and reproductive health services is important to support people’s overall health and well-being.
When these services were reviewed in 2018, feedback influenced us to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services including online services and testing at home for sexually transmitted infections (STI).
More information about services
Patients are able to attend a ‘one stop shop’, meaning that both testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and contraception services can often be accessed in the same appointment. Depending on the type of clinic accessed, patients are able to access different types of care:
Via telephone clinics: patients can have an initial discussion with a doctor or nurse to check what they need/want. Based on this they may either:
Receive appropriate advice support and further supplies of a full range of contraception
Be sent a postal kit to their home to do any necessary STI tests
Send in a photo to help diagnose a ‘skin issue’
Have an appointment booked in one of the ‘face-to-face’ clinics to help diagnose a problem, or to have a method of contraception fitted, removed or replaced, e.g. implants/’depo’ contraceptive injection or coils.
Via specialist face-to-face clinics: in addition to general services, there are a range of specialist services available, including:
Specialist clinics for more challenging contraceptive coil or implant insertions, removals and replacements.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP) clinics to help prevent people catching HIV
Specialist clinics to help with more complicated genital problems, e.g., genital skin issues or vulval pain.
Young person drop-in clinics – run currently at the East Oxford ‘Rectory Road Clinic’
Clinic-U: a clinic which provides contraception and sexual healthcare to people who need extra support and longer appointment times for whatever reason.
Clinics providing HIV Care and treatment
Via support services:
Support around unplanned pregnancy (including referral to abortion/termination services) and sexual assault.
As well as the sexual health clinics, some of these sexual health services are also available through online, pharmacies, GPs, and school and college health nurses. These include:
A range of contraceptive options (including emergency contraception, coils and implants)
Free condoms for young people
Support, information and advice about sex, relationships and unplanned pregnancy
Across Oxfordshire, there are several ways to access sexual and reproductive health care, including:
We would like to hear your views about Oxfordshire sexual and reproductive health services.
Your views will help us to understand what aspects of services work well, and what could be better. This will help to inform any future changes to local sexual and reproductive health services in the county. We want future Oxfordshire sexual and reproductive services (OSHS) to reflect what you want and need.
Access to free, confidential and non-judgemental sexual and reproductive health services is important to support people’s overall health and well-being.
When these services were reviewed in 2018, feedback influenced us to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services including online services and testing at home for sexually transmitted infections (STI).
More information about services
Patients are able to attend a ‘one stop shop’, meaning that both testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and contraception services can often be accessed in the same appointment. Depending on the type of clinic accessed, patients are able to access different types of care:
Via telephone clinics: patients can have an initial discussion with a doctor or nurse to check what they need/want. Based on this they may either:
Receive appropriate advice support and further supplies of a full range of contraception
Be sent a postal kit to their home to do any necessary STI tests
Send in a photo to help diagnose a ‘skin issue’
Have an appointment booked in one of the ‘face-to-face’ clinics to help diagnose a problem, or to have a method of contraception fitted, removed or replaced, e.g. implants/’depo’ contraceptive injection or coils.
Via specialist face-to-face clinics: in addition to general services, there are a range of specialist services available, including:
Specialist clinics for more challenging contraceptive coil or implant insertions, removals and replacements.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP) clinics to help prevent people catching HIV
Specialist clinics to help with more complicated genital problems, e.g., genital skin issues or vulval pain.
Young person drop-in clinics – run currently at the East Oxford ‘Rectory Road Clinic’
Clinic-U: a clinic which provides contraception and sexual healthcare to people who need extra support and longer appointment times for whatever reason.
Clinics providing HIV Care and treatment
Via support services:
Support around unplanned pregnancy (including referral to abortion/termination services) and sexual assault.
As well as the sexual health clinics, some of these sexual health services are also available through online, pharmacies, GPs, and school and college health nurses. These include:
A range of contraceptive options (including emergency contraception, coils and implants)
Free condoms for young people
Support, information and advice about sex, relationships and unplanned pregnancy
Across Oxfordshire, there are several ways to access sexual and reproductive health care, including:
This questionnaire will take about 15 minutes to complete
When the survey asks questions about ‘sexual and reproductive health services’, this means any sexual or reproductive health services in Oxfordshire that you might have used or could use i.e., online, telemedicine, GPs, pharmacies, school and college health nurses and/or specialist sexual and reproductive health face-to-face clinics or online consultations.
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Alternative formats
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Printed copies
You can request a paper copy of the survey documents by emailing: consultations@oxfordshire.gov.uk or call the county council's Customer Services Team on 01865 816000.
