Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSContraception may be provided by maternity departments
The Department of Health may look at ensuring that contraception advice has to be provided at maternity departments, as it now must be by abortion providers.
Andrea Duncan, Programme Manager for Sexual Health and HIV at the DH, told the Westminster Health Forum on the government’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, that the government would ‘look at’ introducing a similar clause in contracts for maternity services to one that applies for abortion services.
From April last year the standard NHS contract for abortion services stipulated that providers must offer the full range of contraception services to women undergoing abortion.
The DH is now working with commissioners to provide an agreed standard for providing contraception at abortion clinics.
Ms Duncan also told the forum that the DH is working to identify the link between alcohol misuse and teenage pregnancy.
She said that three universities in England were looking at the success of brief interventions following alcohol-related incidents on sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy, and she said the Department was carrying out a ‘scoping exercise’ with SHAs to identify good practice in tackling the link between alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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Anonymous | 20-Mar-2010 5:57 pm
What about prevention and educating people about prevention and abstinence from indulgences? Contraception nor abortion would be necessary. Has the government educated students about the effects of contraception and abortion? Its well documented.
"Ms Duncan also told the forum that the DH is working to identify the link between alcohol misuse and teenage pregnancy."
It is not clearly obvious that the link directly relates to the over indulgence of alcohol. Drinking too much alcohol is directly related to the lose of memory.
What happened to the acknowledgment that people do have common sense and do have the ability to reason? Most people know what happens to someone when they drink too much alcohol.YOu have a free will to choose.
"She said that three universities in England were looking at the success of brief interventions following alcohol-related incidents on sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy, and she said the Department was carrying out a ‘scoping exercise’ with SHAs to identify good practice in tackling the link between alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy."
Tackling the issues before they occur is the common sense solution.
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