Sexual health experts to speak at GP
conference
Professor Margaret Johnson, Clinical Director
of HIV/AIDS Services at the Royal Free Hospital and Professor
Margaret Stanley, Professor of Epithelial Biology at the University
of Cambridge are among the experts speaking at the Fourth National
Conference on Sexual Health and Contraception in General
Practice.
This year’s conference, Sexual Health in
the Surgery – ‘Doing it better, making it safer, taking it
further’, will be held on 1 February 2008 at the Burlington
Hotel in Birmingham, and is being organised by the Sex, Drugs and
HIV Task Group of the Royal College of General Practitioners
(RCGP).
Other speakers include Simon Barton, Immediate
Past President of British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
(BASHH); Kate Guthrie, Director of the Sexual and Reproductive
Health Care Partnership for Hull and East Yorkshire; Dr Shireen
Velangi, Consultant Dermatologist at City Hospital, Birmingham; and
Cath Mercer, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Sexual Health
and HIV Research at University College London. Delegates will
also attend practical workshops on a variety of subjects.
Dr Ewen Stewart, chair of the RCGP Sex, Drugs
and HIV Task Group, said, “We are really pleased to have such
distinguished guest speakers at this year’s conference. The
day’s events are a brilliant opportunity for GPs, Practice Nurses
and all health professionals to bring themselves up to date with
the latest views, advice and practical information concerning
sexual health care.”
FURTHER INFORMATION
Media enquiries should be directed to Huw Beale in the RCGP
Press Office hbeale@rcgp.org.uk / 020 7344
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NOTES TO EDITORS
· The Royal College
of General Practitioners is a network of over 30,000 family doctors
working to improve care for patients. We work to encourage and
maintain the highest standards of general medical practice
and act as the voice of GPs on education, training, research and
clinical standards.
· The RCGP Sex,
Drugs & HIV Task Group is a long-standing specialist clinical
interest group that functions within the College’s Clinical
Network. It began in the late 1980s with a group of GPs who
wanted to challenge the view that general practice had no place or
understanding of HIV infection. Since then the group has
developed educational materials and held conferences to keep
colleagues informed of HIV infection, both its prevention and
management.