Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Using a PN Patient Information Sheet 27/09/14 Richard Williams Team Manager Outreach Services and Health Advising

Improving PN Skill Contact Slips New Technologies Provider Notification Partner Notification Patient Information Sheet

Development of the PN Patient Information Sheet Purpose – enhance PN Timing – before during or after consultation Delivery – , hard copy or website? Patient Information – to encourage PN Efficacy – Pt questionnaire and audit

Timing Before, during or after consultation

Delivery Hard copy, or website

Patient Information Sheet YOUR APPOINTMENT, TREATMENT AND PARTNER NOTIFICATION Your appointment When you come for your appointment you will receive information about your infection and treatment. The Sexual Health Adviser will also ask about ‘partner notification’. What is Partner Notification? Sexual partners may not have any signs or symptoms so may not know they have an infection. Letting them know so they can get tests and treatment is known as ‘partner notification’. What’s important about this appointment? The Sexual Health Adviser will help you with questions such as: ‘How could I have got this infection?’ ‘Can I still get it if I’ve used a condom?’ ‘How long could I have had it for?’ ‘How will it affect me?’ ‘Who could I have got it from?’ ‘Who could I have passed it on to?’ ‘How do I tell them?’ So the appointment is important for your sexual health and the sexual health of other people. What happens at your appointment? At your appointment the Sexual Health Adviser will explain how to take your treatment (antibiotics) and how to manage your sex life until the infection has gone. You can get accurate information about the infection and think about who should be contacted so they can get tests and treatment, too. It can be difficult to raise this with your partners and the Sexual Health Adviser will help you with this. If it’s too hard for you to contact partners yourself, the Sexual Health Adviser can contact them confidentially, without disclosing that it involves you – you can ask about this at your appointment. What will I be asked? During the appointment you will be asked about who you are having/have had sex with over a period of time. Any information you give is used to help ensure that current and ex partners get the tests and treatment they need. Your attendance and anything you have discussed is kept strictly confidential. What happens next? At the end of the appointment a plan can be agreed about who may need to be contacted and arrangements are made for your follow up.

Information to encourage PN What is PN? ‘…may not know they have an infection’ ‘letting partners know’ What’s important about this appointment? ‘can I still get it if I’ve used a condom?’ ‘how long could I have had it for?’ ‘who could I have passed it on to?’ ‘how do I tell them?’ the appointment is important for your sexual health and the sexual health of other people

Information to encourage PN What happens at your appointment? ‘…get accurate information about the infection and think about who should be contacted so they can get tests and treatment, too’ ‘if it’s too hard to contact partners yourself, the sexual health adviser can contact them confidentially – ask at your appointment’ What will I be asked? ‘any information…is to help ensure current ex partners get the tests and treatment they need…anything discussed is kept confidential’

Efficacy: patient questionnaire Utility ‘The Patient Information Sheet helped explain why it’s important to contact people I’ve had sex with’ Intention: patient referral ‘The information on the website made it more likely I’d contact my sexual partners’ Intention: provider referral ‘…made it more likely I’d ask the health adviser to contact my sexual partners’

Questionnaire Design Options Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Agree Comments Completion of Questionnaire

Patient Questionnaire YOUR APPOINTMENT, TREATMENT AND PARTNER NOTIFICATION We would like to know what you thought about the information on the website by asking how much you agree or disagree with the 3 statements below The information on the website helped explain why it’s important to contact people I’ve had sex with Strongly AgreeAgreeDisagreeStrongly Disagree Please comment The information on the website made it more likely that I’d contact my sexual partners/ ex partners Strongly AgreeAgreeDisagreeStrongly Disagree Please comment The information on the website made it more likely that I’d ask the Sexual Health Adviser to contact my sexual partners/ ex partners Strongly AgreeAgreeDisagreeStrongly Disagree Please comment Please complete details below: Age Sex Sexual Orientation Clinic use: Clinic sticker

PN Outcomes Audit

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