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Ready, Steady, …… GO!. The ‘Orange Handbook’ rewrite gets the ‘Green’ light. Gill Bell Chris Faldon. Remember 1980? Those were the days!. State of the art technology!. SHASTD meets Dept. Health. June 2000 - Preliminary discussions were held at D.o.H. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ready, Steady, ……GO!
The ‘Orange Handbook’ rewrite gets the ‘Green’ light.
Gill Bell
Chris Faldon
Remember 1980? Those were the days!
State of the art technology!
SHASTD meets Dept. Health• June 2000 - Preliminary discussions were
held at D.o.H.
• April 2001 - Health Adviser Working Party was set up in to respond to Sexual Health Strategy document.
• Summer 2001 – Draft Strategy published
• October 2001 - Action plan submitted
Action Plan
1. Detailed recommendations for DoH produced.
2. Grant of £39,000 awarded to produce - P/N guidelines
- HA Manual
3. Establish Education & Training Working Party for health advisers
The Manual for Health Adviser Practice
• Chris Faldon/ Gill Bell co-opted
• Steering group (Monthly since October 2001)• Sandra Jarrett
• Kathryn Lee
• Dorinda Thirlby
• Heather Wilson
The Manual
• Currently 31 chapters
• Theoretical frameworks
• Practical Guidelines
• Evidenced based
• Evaluation
• Ethical & Legal issues
Manual Content• History of Health Advising• Counselling• HA process model• Crisis intervention• Counselling Supervision• Psychosexual Counselling• Working with interpreters• STI’s• Legal issues
• Contraception• Sexual assault• HIV testing including
results• HIV positive role of
Health Advising• Worried well• Hepatitis C• Working with gay men/
Risk Reduction
And yet there is more!
• Young people
• Termination of Pregnancy
• Health Adviser management
• Code of Conduct
• Partner Notification
• Ethics
• Research and audit
• Triage
• Information Technology
• Recall• Mental Health• Community Health
Advising• Outreach • Health Promotion• Working in prisons