@prefix rdf: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Haringey" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections in Haringey." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Hornsey and Wood Green" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Catherine West" ; parl:uin "716" ; dcterms:date "2019-10-15"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The development of a national sexual health strategy is a key recommendation in the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report on sexual health, which was published on 2 June 2019. The Government is currently considering the report’s recommendations and will publish a formal response shortly. In the Green Paper consultation ‘Advancing Our Health – Prevention in the 2020s’, we sought views on priorities for a possible new strategy and will consider the responses carefully.

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We would encourage people to practice safe sex by using condoms and to access their free, local sexual health services if they consider themselves to be at risk of infection. Local authorities have been mandated to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services and are best placed to understand and meet the public health needs of their local communities.

Data published by Public Health England show that more people are accessing sexual health services, with attendances increasing by 7% between 2017 and 2018. This continues the trend of increases in attendances seen over the past five years. To help manage the overall increase in demand, online services are increasingly being commissioning to manage lower risk and asymptomatic patients. These services also have the potential to reach groups not currently engaged with clinic services.

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