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NSW STI Programs Unit UPDATE
May 2011
Southern &Murrumbidgee LHD
Esther Chau - part time - administration support
ADVISORY GROUPSESIH
Financial and Business management
NSW AIDBFunding and
strategic direction
HeadDr Chris Bourne
Project ManagerPublicly Funded
Sexual Health ServiceLeng Boonwaat
A/ManagerCarolyn Murray
Project ManagerGeneral Practice Carolyn Murray
Project ManagerHIV/STI Health Promotion
ResourceLiz Story
NSW Sexual Health Information Line
Margy Ewing
NSW Sexual Health Website
NSW Sexual Health Medical Directors Group
Project ManagerSTI Contact Tracing and GP Research Programs
Leanne Burton
Organisational Setting
WORKING WITH GENERAL PRACTICE
1 Support sexual health service provision by GPs by ensuring access to education and training programs.
• Practice Nurse STI training program
• Active Learning Module for GPs
• Think GP training- GP STI testing tool
• Direct advertising to GPs
WORKING WITH GENERAL PRACTICE
2 Support sexual health service provision by GPs by ensuring ready access to information and education resources.
• GP STI Testing tool
• Practice Nurse Postcard ‘s
• Contributing to revision 7th RACGP Prevention Care (Red Book)
• Fact sheets and website
• Other resources
WORKING WITH GENERAL PRACTICE
MASTER CLASS
“SEX...NEED A HAND”
3 Improve communication of Area Health Service referral pathways and options available to GPs
• Core business statement
• Partnerships with RACGP, GPNSW and ASHM
• Practice Nurse Conference
HEALTH PROMOTION RESOURCE PROJECT
Increase general awareness of STIs, including the asymptomatic nature of many and
the range of prevention strategies to reduce the transmission of STI,
including condom use with new and casual partners.
ACTIVITIES FOR 2011
• NSW HIV/STI Education campaign extenders
– TAFE campaign
– Sydney Festival: opportunistic advertising, condom distribution
• Social Research
– barriers & facilitators to STI testing in young people
– new media & sexual health information for young people
• Social Marketing Training
• SMS & STIPU MAIL
ACTIVITIES FOR 2011
• Sexual Health Week
• World AIDS Day: HIV Is Still Here
Community GrantsTraining in HIV Discrimination
PUBLICLY FUNDED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES PROJECT
1. Improving access to sexual health clinics for priority populations
• Snapshot of SHS data across NSW
• Priority Populations Calculator
• Review of population health knowledge
and skills http://wdp.org.au
• Triage training http://stiprojects.info/triagecourse
• Social media discussion paper
PUBLICLY FUNDED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES PROJECT
2. Strengthen local partnerships with general practice
• Core business statements for SHS, GPs and Public Health Units
• Discussions with Medical Directors, HPOs and Sexual Health Counsellors re: how STIPU can help PFSHS support GPs
• Work with laboratories to add referral notes to STI test results
PUBLICLY FUNDED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES PROJECT
3. Promote best practice standards within publicly funded sexual health services
• Secretariat to Senior Nurse Technical Group• NSW SOP / clinical guidelines / standing orders
• Sexual Health Nursing Course
• Support ASHHNA re: sexual health competencies
• STI Project register
• STIPU Website
• Secretariat to NSW SH Medical Directors
STI CONTACT TRACING & GP RESEARCH
GP Research - To support the development of research into general practice STI testing
Key Project
• University of Western Sydney researchers
• Conducting a process and impact evaluation of STIPU resources for GPs and Practice Nurses
• Process – how the resources were planned, delivered and received by the target
audience,
• Impact – what outcomes were achieved and the extent to which the GP Project
aims were achieved.
• Consult individuals & stakeholders through online surveys, interviews and focus groups.
STI CONTACT TRACING & GP RESEARCH
STI Contact Tracing - To strengthen contact tracing measures across the state including Sexual Health Services and General Practice
Key Project Areas
• Promotion, distribution and in some cases development of Contact Tracing Resources for General Practice
• Supporting Publicly Funded Sexual Health Clinic– Update of Contact Tracing SOP
– Exploration of Contact Tracing Quality Assurance Activities
– Supporting clinics in providing STI education to general practice
• Participating and contributing to the review of NSW Contact Tracing Guidelines for STI and BBV policy directive
STI CONTACT TRACING & GP RESEARCH
NSW SEXUAL HEALTH INFOLINE
Aims:• To educate and promote the
sexual health of the community.
• To facilitate efficient use of public funded sexual health clinics.
• Staffed by team of 4 nurses:
– sexual health clinical experience (CNS)
– Phone line training
• Computerised database and web based resources.
• Database of SHC business hours and skill mix.
NSW SEXUAL HEALTH INFOLINE
2009/2010: 6, 200 calls in NSW
GSAHS:
• 86 community calls
• 21 health professionals
• 5 doctors, 9 nurses, 7 allied health
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July 2008 - March 2011
GSAHS
GWAHS
NCAHS
Linear (GSAHS)
NSW Health Get
Tested campaign
• Provide triage and administration support (freecall
transfer).
• Info and support to STI contacts/partners.
• Extend clinical support: new GPs, doctors and nurses, alliedhealth staff.
• Training courses –schools, TAFE, uni, allied health, GP
• Commercial outlets-entertainment, fashion, hair and beauty,pharmacies, tourism
• Business schools-trades, mining, industry.
• Add to media releases.
• Outreach to youth, aboriginal, welfare and correctiveservices.
NSW SEXUAL HEALTH INFOLINE
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
www.stipu.nsw.gov.au/shil
Discussion
1. What have been your experiences with triage and priority populations?
2. How can SLHD help support General Practice to undertake contact tracing within the work the clinic currently undertakes with GPs?
3. How are social marketing techniques/tools currently used in SLHD in activities that you develop? Can these be further enhanced?
Fact sheets
Core Business Statement
Core Business cont’
Mail out to GPs 1 & 2
Getting STIs on the Agenda
MEDICAL UPDATE
Dr Chris Bourne, Head, New South Wales Sexually Transmissible Infections Programs Unit, and Senior Staff Specialist, Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney Hospital…supported by New South Wales STI Programs Unit. To obtain a copy of the STI testing tool please visit: http://www.stipu.nsw.gov.au/ click on highlights
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Special Feature
Self collection of specimens
DRAFT REVIEW
Aboriginal and
Torres strait islander
Communities
PLWHA
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