Leeds Sexual Health

LSH is aimed at anyone who is seeking advice or care for issues relating to sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, HIV testing and prevention, sexual assault.

Anyone over 13 years can self refer and get an urgent appointment (within 48hrs) based on their needs. We also take referrals from GPs, youth workers, support workers and social care, Sexual assault referral centres.

We aim to deal with all issues in one visit. Rarely people will return for an ongoing treatment or procedure.

LSH is open 6 days a week (closed on Sundays).

Check out our website.

Community gynaecology

We provide a friendly high quality service for benign gynaecological conditions, providing specialist care across various community settings. We work in partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Meanwood Medical Practice to make up the Leeds Integrated Gynaecology service.

We provide help with:

• management of abnormal uterine bleeding (heavy, painful or irregular periods)
• difficult IUD (copper or hormonal coil) fit and removals
• benign (non cancerous) vulval disorders
• vaginal prolapse or urinary incontinence not requiring surgery
• pessary removal and fit
• difficult or failed smears
• cervical polyp removals
• menopause and premenstrual syndrome management
• sterilisation counselling

Leeds Sexual Health

Leeds Sexual Health provides a high quality, professional and confidential sexual health services across Leeds. We have a large multidisciplinary team that come together to provide a highly specialised genitourinary (GU) and reproductive health service and the service is free and open to everyone.

Services available include:

• Contraception
• Emergency Contraception
• Pregnancy Testing
• STI Testing and Treatment
• HIV Testing, PEP and PrEP (HIV prevention and treatment)
• Support and Advice

Community gynaecology

During your time on your GOSH placement at Leeds Community Healthcare, there will be a limited number of placements available to you within one of our Community Gynaecology clinics.

These clinics are in addition to your scheduled 1.5 days at our Sexual Health sites and provide an amazing opportunity to gain additional insight into and experience of a community gynaecology clinic. As well as giving you more opportunities to receive sign offs and obtain patient histories, patients at these clinics attend on a referral only basis and often present with conditions which may not be seen during your time at other LCH clinics.

Leeds Sexual Health

You will have time allocated to the Beeston clinic and, hopefully, to one of our spoke sites. During this time, we want you to have the opportunity to observe patients attending with a variety of sexual health and contraception needs, take male and female sexual histories and explore contraception counselling.
You will be allocated a supervisor for each half-day session, who may be a doctor or a nurse.

Community gynaecology

Community gynaecology clinics provide an amazing opportunity to gain additional insight and experience, as well as giving you more time to receive sign offs and obtain patient histories.

Leeds Sexual Health and community gynaecology are topics are featured from Wednesday to Friday in the GOSH introduction week. To see the associated learning materials for these sessions please visit the VLE.

You will attend integrated sexual health clinics (for both GU and contraception health needs).

The clinics are based in community sites.

Most clinics will be booked with a range of ages, and a mixture of presentations, including those with symptoms, those seeking contraception, those coming for STI prevention or sexual health advice. You may see a dedicated young person’s clinic (for U18 years), or a contraception procedure clinic for coils and implants.

Please check the VLE for intro week lectures and additional learning videos.

• You can also register for eLearning for health with your university email address in order to access interactive teaching materials within the ‘eSTI-HIV’ module ( E-LFH)
• Please check the VLE for example videos of male pelvis examination and sexual history taking
• We are a close-knit team of doctors and nursing staff. Our senior nurses are highly skilled and have undergone additional training in sexual health so please learn from them and ask any questions you have.

If you would like to do additional reading or learning in sexual health, try the following websites:

• BASHH Guidance
• Sexwise: Contraception
• Base: HIV positive

We expect you to attend 100% of sessions on the programme as a mark of respect for your colleagues and particularly your patients. Failure to attend, or absence without permission, can have serious consequences and may result in you being excluded from the university.

If you cannot attend or are running late, please follow your normal university absence reporting procedures (for example, recording your absence on Minerva) as well as contacting the placement host. Preferably do this before your placement is due to start so that clinicians don’t delay the start of their clinic waiting for you.

LSH clinics and LSH spoke clinics

If you are unable to attend for any reason, or are delayed, please email the admin team lcht.lshadmin.lch@nhs.net and beckey.buckley@nhs.net
Please also call the Admin team on 0113 843 1011.

Community gynaecology

If you are unable to attend for any reason, or are delayed, please email the admin team community.gynaecology1@nhs.net and beckey.buckley@nhs.net
Please also call the Admin team on 0113 843 1050.

Please be aware that clinic phone lines are only manned during opening hours, they open at 8am and can be extremely busy.

If you do not attend your placement and have not been in contact to relay any mitigating circumstances beforehand via the above contact details, we will contact both yourself and the university as per our duty of care and so that the absence can be recorded accurately.

The School of Medicine, in collaboration with placement providers and students, has developed a dress code for MBChB and Physician Associate students while on clinical placement.

• Dress code guidance for clinical placement providers

Both Leeds Sexual Health and Community Gynaecology may ask you for local feedback. We use this to inform our offering on what to continue and what to improve.

You can also submit cards of commendation or concern via the university through the clinical placement reporting tool