Here at SH:24 we are always looking for ways to innovate and improve our service. We’ve introduced selective testing in some of the areas we're commissioned in, and wanted to tell you a bit more about it.
Advice on the recent Hepatitis outbreak in the UK
Top marks: our feedback survey results
Our impact: latest SH:24 news and data
A lot has happened since our last data round-up in October - we celebrated our first birthday in March and we’ve now processed over 10,000 orders. We’re really excited about the potential of the data we’ve gathered. Our research team are hard at work on a randomised control trial that should tell us some more about our users’ behaviour but this is what we’ve been able to learn from the data we’ve looked at so far.
SH:24 goes national!
Happy Birthday to us - an eventful year
SH:24 response to Guardian article: 'Cuts to sexual health services will lead to STI 'explosion', warn experts'
Sexual health made headlines yesterday as shadow public health minister, Andrew Gwynne claimed in The Guardian that the Labour Party’s analysis had found as much as £40 million could be cut from local councils’ sexual health budgets and that this would have a consequent effect on (already increasing) STI rates. This analysis doesn’t take into account the opportunity for online STI testing services to deliver efficiency savings and improve access to STI testing through remote home testing.
The power of text
Let's talk about EsSEX
Tempted as we were to name our blog after a certain popular reality TV series, we couldn’t resist taking inspiration from Salt-N-Pepa again (as we have done with our Twitter hashtag #letstalkaboutsex). So enough hinting - we’re proud to say SH:24 has been successful in a partnership bid to deliver an integrated sexual health service in Essex.