Mark Hendrick – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which (a) NHS hospitals, (b) clinics and (c) surgeries in Lancashire have treated sexually transmitted diseases; and how many people were treated at each such institution in 2015.

Nicola Blackwood

There were 1,773 new sexually transmitted infection diagnoses made at three genitourinary medicine clinics (GUM) in Lancashire in 2015: St. Peter’s Health Centre (44.8%), Royal Preston Hospital (35.5%) and Ashton Community Care Centre (19.7%).

There is no data on the number of people treated, as GUM clinics provide treatment whenever it is clinically indicated and, therefore, are not required to specifically report the number of cases treated.

Data are provided by the GUM clinics through their returns to the genitourinary medicine clinic activity dataset (GUMCADv2) held by Public Health England (not the hospitals). Data from general practice surgeries are not available.