NSW STI Programs Unit UPDATE

September 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/Manager Carolyn 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

1. Increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and reduce HIV related stigma & discrimination in the general community

• World AIDS Day campaign

• Community grants program

• State-wide and local media campaign

• HIV training for healthcare workers

HEALTH PROMOTION RESOURCE PROJECT

2. 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

• Extending the NSW Get Tested Play Safe Campaign• Sydney Festival• Sexual Health Week

HEALTH PROMOTION RESOURCE PROJECT

• Social Research

- Understanding barriers to STI testing among young people

- Using new media technologies to provide sexual health information to young people

• Social Marketing training pilot• Social Marketing Summary (SMS) and STIPU Mail

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• Training needs analysis http://www.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 /medication training package• 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

1. GP Research - To support the development of research into general practice STI testing

• Conducting a process and impact evaluation of STIPU resources for GPs and Practice Nurses

• Consult individuals & stakeholders through online surveys, interviews and focus groups.

STI CONTACT TRACING & GP RESEARCH

2. To strengthen contact tracing measures across the state including Sexual Health Services and General Practice

• Promotion, distribution and in some cases development of Contact Tracing Resources for General Practice• STI Contact Tracing Tool For General Practice• Let Them Know• GP NSW Contact Tracing Webpage

• Supporting Publicly Funded Sexual Health Clinic• 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:1. To educate and promote the

sexual health of the community.2. To facilitate efficient use of public

funded sexual health clinics. • Staffed by team of 4 nurses:

– sexual health clinical experience (CNS)

– Phone competency assessed– Annual 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 NSWGSAHS:

• 86 community calls• 21 health professionals

• 5 doctors, 9 nurses, 7 allied health

• Provide triage and administration support (freecall transfer).

• Info and support to STI contacts/partners.• Extend clinical support: new GPs, doctors and nurses, allied health staff.

• Training courses –schools, TAFE, uni, allied health, GP.• Commercial outlets-entertainment, fashion, hair and beauty, pharmacies, tourism.

• Business schools-trades, mining, industry, hospitality.

• Use number to add on to media releases.• Outreach to youth, aboriginal, welfare and corrective services.

NSW SEXUAL HEALTH INFOLINEHOW 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 islanderCommunities

PLWHA

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