Welcome
Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust Sexual Health Promotion Service aims to improve the sexual health of people in Birmingham by undertaking a wide range of health promoting projects and initiatives, primarily aimed at community groups, agencies and professionals who work directly with our priority groups.
Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust Sexual Health Promotion Service aims to improve the sexual health of people in Birmingham by undertaking a wide range of health promoting projects and initiatives, primarily aimed at community groups, agencies and professionals who work directly with our priority groups.
Our Service
The Sexual Health Promotion Service has a wide and holistic view of sexual health provision and works using a number of key processes including:
The Sexual Health Promotion Service has a wide and holistic view of sexual health provision and works using a number of key processes including:
- Training for primary care and other professionals working with priority groups
- Improving sexual health services available in general practice through the Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP) scheme
- Development and dissemination of accurate and culturally appropriate sexual health resources
- Providing advice and support for professionals working with sexual health issues
- Community capacity-building interventions that promote safer sex (e.g. Lay Sexual Health Advisor Scheme)
- Establishing models of good sexual health practice through the development of projects and initiatives for priority groups/settings
- Sexual health promotion campaigns (local and national)
- Condom distribution programmes within specific community settings
- Making effective working links between agencies and organisations to improve the overall provision of sexual health
About Us
Our aim is to maximise sexual health and well-being and reduce inequalities in sexual health.
Our aim is to maximise sexual health and well-being and reduce inequalities in sexual health.
The scope of our work is currently determined and commissioned by Birmingham’s HIV and Sexual Healthcommissioners, who specify levels of funding and identify the priority groups and issues we focus on.
Our remit for 2008/2009 includes sexual health promotion and HIV prevention work with:
- African communities
- African Caribbean communities
- Young people
- Primary care through the Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP) scheme.