Jan Hyland recently retired from sexual health advising after a long career in sexual health.

This new one day course will give you an essential update on the diagnosis and management of key areas in sexual health and urology.

Earlier this year, the West London Centre for Sexual Health in Hammersmith in London was asked to take part in Channel 4 documentary called “The Hospital”, for an episode on young people and sexual health.

From the proposed consultation questions it appears that issues of concern to practitioners and employers may not be covered.
The question
“All non-medically qualified public health ‘specialists’ currently on the UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists should instead be placed on a Statutory Register. The wider Public Health workforce (i.e. those not eligible for inclusion on a Public Health Specialist register) should be subject to a self-regulation register.”
We understand why non-medical public health specialists should sit with medical public health specialists, but where does this leave other public health practitioners?
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The Freedom of Information Act has been used by a number of organisations to question trade union facility time across the public sector. Unite believes that these actions are part of an attempt to undermine and weaken trade unions’ legitimate role in the workplace.
Trade Union Facility Time is a crucial union resource and if seriously undermined could acutely jeopardise the ability of the unions to represent members effectively.

The National Professional Committee (NPC) for the Society of Sexual Health Advisers would like acknowledge that we welcome the forthcoming Partner Notification performance measure for the BASHH STI Management Standards.

The joint trade unions are determined that the voice of NHS staff should be heard loudly and clearly in the debate around pay and in the evidence to this year’s NHS Pay Review Body that will recommend how much AfC pay scales should be increased by.

To date, completed applications to this years SSHA conference, provisionally organised for Belfast has been slow. The HA team in Belfast were the only team interested in hosting and organising conference and it would be great to have conference in Northern Ireland for the first time.

Applications are invited from public health workers across Wales to the Public Health Practitioner Portfolio Development Support Programme (2010-11). Through this programme practitioners will be able to access a range of support in developing portfolios of evidence against the UK Public Health Register’s (UKPHR) Public Health Practitioner (Draft) Standards for Registration.

BASHH Adolescent Specialist Interest Group (ASIG) is looking for representation from a Health Adviser