Sexually Transmitted Disease

One in Five Patients Denied Urgent Access to Sexual Health Clinics

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 19th, 2001

One in five patients with acute symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection is unlikely to be seen at a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic within the recommended 48 hours in Great Britain, researchers reported in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Over one million patients were seen at GUM clinics in 1999 - more than twice the number at the start of the decade.

The lead clinician in each of the 258 U.K. GUM clinics was sent a questionnaire asking how quickly they thought patients with one of two symptom scenarios would be seen. The symptoms indicated acute, transmissible, and severe viral or bacterial infection. Health care staff...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-02-19)

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