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NCSP outreach guidance

The NCSP recommends that local NHS organisations base local testing within existing core services (general practice, pharmacy, sexual and reproductive health clinics, GUM and termination of pregnancy clinics). This has proven to be the most cost effective way of reaching young people and identifying positive cases.

In general, current outreach activity in the NCSP to date has shown that this is an approach that does not provide value for money, nor does it identify sufficient positive cases. However, there are circumstances where carefully considered outreach testing, based on a local needs assessment, may help reach groups of young people who may otherwise not access testing.

The Department of Health highlighted in the recently published statement (available on the DH website ) that outreach work with low risk groups that identifies small numbers of positive cases should cease.

The following guidance combines experience from NCSP implementation, analysis of NCSP data and highlights from the published literature. These combine to show that in order to be effective outreach testing has to be targeted for hard to reach groups with limited access to sexual health services. It must be based on local needs assessment and built into wider health initiatives in order to provide value for money.

NCSP Outreach Guidance Nov 11
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Thank you to the following co-ordinators who provided evaluations of their mailout initiatives. Should you wish to obtain copies of these evaluations you should contact the relevant co-ordinators directly in the first instance (click the relevent name to email):

Barking & Dagenham

Name	Address	Phone
Georgina Antwi	Terrence Higgins Trust 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP	0207 812 1716 or 07814 689 077

Bromley and Bexley with Greenwich hosting

Name	Address	Phone
Stephanie Sawyer	Public Health Department 11/12 Ashtree Close Broadwater Gardens Farnborough BR6 7UA	01689 880692

Central & East Cheshire

Name	Address	Phone
Debbie Ritchie	Team Chlamydia Congleton War Memorial Hospital Canal Road Congleton Cheshire CW12 3AR	01260 277 477

Central Lancashire & West Lancashire

Name	Address	Phone
Carolyn Blythe	C-Wize Urban Exchange Mount Street Preston PR1 8BQ	01772 255 317

Cumbria

Name	Address	Phone
Sharon Lightfoot	Chlamydia Screening Office Central Clinic 50 Victoria Place Carlisle CA1 1HP	01228 603 342

Devon

Name	Address	Phone
Beccy Lyons	Chlamydia Screening Office NHS Walk-in Centre Unit 4 31 Sidwell Street Exeter EX4 6NN	01392 284 965 or 078 7539 4958

Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley & Bassetlaw

Name	Address	Phone
Denise Dunn	7 Nether Hall Road Doncaster DN1 2PH	01302 730 400 or 07816 068 480

Greenwich

Name	Address	Phone
Amira Gorani	Chlamydia Screening Office Isleworth Health Centre 146 Twickenham Road Middlesex TW7 7DJ	0208 694 7326 or 07999 933369

Luton (East & North Hertfordshire PCT)

Name	Address	Phone
Steven Reynolds	Family Planning Clinic Danestrete Clinic Danestrete Southgate Stevenage SG1 1HB	01923 281 600 ext. 429

Mid-Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Sue Scales	Moulsham Lodge Clinic Lilac Close Chelmsford Essex CM2 9NY	01245 318 750 or 07900 248 718

North East Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Jayne Overett	Kennedy House Kennedy Way Clacton on Sea Essex CO15 4AB	01206 363 003

Northern Lincolnshire

Name	Address	Phone
Paul Watson	COAST Weelsby View Health Centre Ladysmith Road Grimsby DN32 9EF	01472 255 216/8 or 07766 781 610

South West Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Irene Bramley	Civic Offices New Road Grays Essex RM17 6FD	01375 413447

South West Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Felicity Kennedy	Civic Offices New Road Grays Essex RM17 6FD	01375 413447

South West London

Name	Address	Phone
Karen Carruthers	22 Hollyfield Road Surbiton Surrey KT5 9AL	0208 339 4783

Surrey

Name	Address	Phone
Wendy Wood	X-Ray Department Woking Community Hospital Heathside Road Woking Surrey GU22 7HS	0845 130 6589 or 07971 660897

Tower Hamlets

Name	Address	Phone
Doreen Donaldson	Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea Screening Office Sylvia Pankhurst Centre 3rd Floor Grove Building Mile End Hospita Bancroft Road London E1 4DG	020 8223 8291 or 0800 707 6951

Wakefield District and Dewsbury, Batley & Spen

Name	Address	Phone
Vivien Thompson	Castleford & Normanton District Hospital Lumley Street Hightown Castleford WF10 5LT	01977 665 831

West Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Louise Palmer	Lister House Community Clinic Staple Tye Harlow Essex CM18 7LS	01279 698 669

West Essex

Name	Address	Phone
Charlotte Riggall	Lister House Community Clinic Staple Tye Harlow Essex CM18 7LS	01279 698 669

Be proactive

The National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) is a control and prevention programme targeted at the highest risk group for chlamydia infection in England, young people under 25 who are sexually active.

Chlamydia is often asymptomatic so a large proportion of cases remain undiagnosed, but infection can be diagnosed easily (young people can do the test themselves), and treated effectively.

To find your local Chlamydia Screening Office or to register with us enter your post code or select your region on the map