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<p>The Public Health Outcomes Framework includes a chlamydia diagnosis rate indicator
– one of three sexual health indicators in the framework. Public Health England (PHE)
encourages local authorities to work towards achieving a rate of 2,300 diagnoses per
100,000 young adult populations.</p><p> </p><p>The National Chlamydia Screening Programme
(NCSP) supports this aim through:</p><p> </p><p>- Publishing chlamydia screening standards,
to form the basis of local screening planning, delivery and quality assurance;</p><p>-
Producing guidance to support local commissioners and providers in the delivery of
chlamydia screening, including forthcoming publication ‘Achieving the diagnostic rate
indicator';</p><p>- Reviewing and summarising the latest evidence to inform evidence-based
and cost-effective approaches to chlamydia screening;</p><p>- Collecting and publishing
chlamydia data, at a national and local level, to monitor screening and detection
activity;</p><p>- Providing information to young adults on chlamydia, chlamydia screening
and wider sexual health matters (e.g. condom use, contraception), including via a
website;</p><p>- Supporting the implementation of specific programmes to increase
chlamydia screening rates, such as the ‘3Cs & HIV Programme'. This is currently
being piloted across England to encourage the routine offer of chlamydia screening,
alongside information on contraception and condoms, to young adults during primary
care appointments;</p><p>- A team of PHE sexual health facilitators, who are linked
closely into local commissioner and provider sexual health networks, with a focus
on promoting chlamydia screening; and</p><p>- Evaluating the impact of the NCSP, including
development of different approaches to estimate and monitor prevalence, such as mathematical
modelling.</p><p> </p>
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