Health - Third Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 22 May 2003.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 WHAT
IS SEXUAL HEALTH?
Sexual health and health inequalities
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Gonorrhoea
Syphilis
Genital Warts
Genital Herpes
HIV/AIDS
Other Conditions
Co-infection issues
Unintended pregnancy and teenage pregnancy
Sexual dysfunction
3 WHAT
IS THE CURRENT SITUATION?
Trends in Sexually Transmitted Infections
Trends in HIV/AIDS
Trends in teenage pregnancy
Trends in unintended pregnancy
4 WHAT
UNDERLIES THESE TRENDS?
5 HOW
HAS THE GOVERNMENT RESPONDED TO THE PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED?
6 TREATMENT
AND SERVICE PROVISION
Access to, and pressures on, services
Premises
Chlamydia Screening
HIV/AIDS services
Services
Funding treatment and service provision for
HIV and AIDS
The Strategy and HIV services
Contribution of primary care
Contribution of Social Care
Contribution of Voluntary Care
The impact of the Strategy on the
organisation of service delivery: general issues
Commissioning of services
Services in Primary Care
7 FAMILY
PLANNING AND ABORTION SERVICES
Current arrangements for commissioning
and delivering
What impact will the Strategy have?
Lack of priority given by the Strategy
to contraception
Lack of priority at a PCT level
Access to services
Clinical quality and audit
Abortion services
8 SEXUAL
DYSFUNCTION TREATMENT AND SERVICES
Anti-impotence treatments
Other issues of dysfunction
9 PREVENTION
AND SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION
Getting the message across—a national
information campaign
Evidence-based practice
The wider impact of health promotion
Securing the status and position of health
10 RELATIONSHIPS
AND SEX EDUCATION
What do young people know about sex and
sexual health?
Is relationships and sex education necessary
or appropriate?
Best practice in relationships and sex education
Relationships and sex education in 2003
Does this assessment match with that of current
and recent school pupils?
Lack of priority
Lack of experienced teachers
The wrong focus
Meeting the needs of both boys and girls
What age?
Parents
Improving sexual health
11 CONCLUSIONS
The cultural context of changing sexual
behaviour
Giving priority to sexual health
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE REPORT
APPENDIX
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF UNPRINTED WRITTEN EVIDENCE
REPORTS FROM THE HEALTH COMMITTEE SINCE
2001
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 69-II)
APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 69-II)
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