HIV Healthcare Training Online

posted: 03/03/2011

HIV and STI doctors and other healthcare staff have an engaging and extensive online learning programme called eHIV-STI. This e-training has been put together by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV and the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. Keeping HIV clinic staff well trained is an important part of good HIV care.
 

This eHIV-STI training provides the knowledge healthcare professionals need for treating and supporting people with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and related conditions. It’s designed to be used alongside clinic training.
 

3 knowledge levels

They provide training to three levels of knowledge, from introductory, to more advanced and finally specialist knowledge, so people can learn in stages.
 

The 60 sessions of e-learning with video clips and case studies cover most of what HIV and STI clinic staff need to know. The training is open for doctors and NHS healthcare staff in England who register with the site.
 

HIV & STI e-Learning for Healthcare

Doctor Talk – What’s Said?

posted: 23/12/2010

You have just 15 minutes to talk with your HIV doctor and the clock is ticking.     What should you talk about?     Are you saying the right thing?     Does your doctor understand you?      Do you understand the doctor?      Is the doctor treating you seriously?

Lindsay Calder and James Miller from Living Well  talk to doctors and patients about this special relationship.

Click to read the article, first published this summer, in HIV Treatment Update.
 

Read about

• What we want from our doctor
• Telling it like it is
• Working the 15-minute slot
• Take PART
• You’ve got mail
• The special relationship
• Information levels

You may also find this helpful : You and Your Doctor factsheet.

HIV Treatment Update  back issues online

Healthcare Confidential

posted: 19/04/2010

NAT have produced Confidentiality in healthcare for people living with HIV. Why does medical confidentiality matter for people living with HIV? What can you expect from the NHS? What difference will the introduction of electronic medical records and changes in NHS information sharing mean for people living with HIV?

This report deals with contact tracing of sexual partners, prosecutions for reckless HIV transmission, testing in different settings, and the new NHS medical records IT systems.
 

Reassure, train, monitor

The report recommends the NHS should do more to reassure people with HIV about their confidentiality, including displaying more prominent information about NHS confidentiality policies. It proposes that NHS staff, particularly those providing new HIV testing, should have early training in HIV and confidentiality. NAT recommends that the NHS IT programme must be regularly monitored, including feedback from people living with HIV.
 

NAT will very soon publish a simple confidentiality in healthcare guide for people living with HIV, explaining what rights people living with HIV have, and what to expect from the NHS. NAT will put this out this Spring.

Confidentiality in Healthcare for people living with HIV        pdf 2.6Mb

or as a direct download from NAT

HIV and Your GP Survey

posted: 02/12/2009

HIV positive people are collecting views on the GP service, your 'family doctor'. Please take a few moments to fill in this survey. It should take less then ten minutes to complete. They do not ask for any personal information, only your post code, if you are happy to give that.

This survey has been compiled by HIV positive people and is to help understand people's relation-ship with their GP and how you would like to see the GP and other Primary Care services change and grow.

Take part in the survey here - all the questions are plain to see on this page

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