The rates of gonorrhoea being detected in Liverpool are rising and currently sit above national average.
A new report into sexual and reproductive health and HIV across the city has detailed how Liverpool’s health services are managing challenges in sexual health and outlined its future plans. A decade ago commissioning arrangements for sexual, reproductive health and HIV were passed to Liverpool Council as a result of the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in Parliament.
Since assuming the responsibility for sexual health commissioning in 2013, local authorities nationally have been working in collaboration with NHS partners, to maintain and improve access for their residents to sexual, reproductive health and HIV services and to ensure pathways of care. Councils, like Liverpool, can now commission services to communities including contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, sexual health aspects of psychosexual counselling, sexual health specialist services, HIV social care and wider support for teenage parents.
