Services

Integrated Sexual Health Services -

South Tyneside Sexual Health Service provides a full range of services including:

• Free Online Home Testing for HIV, Syphilis, Chlamydia & Gonorrhoea: Order Your FREE home testing kits here  
• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• Advice and information about sexual health
• Free Community Testing & Condom Sites
• Contraception – including Emergency Contraception
• Pregnancy Testing
• HIV Testing – including rapid result (30 min) tests and counselling and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) – short term medication that can help prevent people from developing HIV if they've been exposed to it.
• PREP
• Hepatitis B vaccination
• Advice about termination
• Help for people who have been sexually assaulted
• Referral to a specialist
• Psychosexual Counselling

Some infections can be diagnosed at the clinics and any treatment is available free of charge. If necessary, treatment and tracing of partners can be carried out by our trained and experienced Health Advisers.

All services are free and completely confidential - all tests are optional.

South Tyneside Sexual Health offer appointment only clinics . To book appointments please call the telephone appointment line on 0191 4028191 Monday - Friday between the hours of 08:45 -12:15 . There are only a limited number of appointments and many are only opened for access 2 days ahead to make sure you are seen as soon as possible. There are some appointments kept for contraception and procedures only and these can booked up to 3 months ahead once you have discussed your contraception need with the Nurse/Doctor.

If you suspect you have a sexually transmitted infection, it is important that you attend a clinic as soon as possible. This is so that you can have testing, treatment if needed and also details taken of your sexual partners so that they can also be offered testing and treatment. The Sexual Health Advisors will talk to you about the partner notification process as they can do this for you without any previous partners knowing that it was you who provided their details.

People with additional needs

Appropriate arrangements are in place so that patients with additional needs can access sexual health services – for example, providing access to interpreters. There are also clinic facilities for people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, people who have been sexually assaulted, sex workers and substance misusers'.