Date Passed: 1st April
Speaker: Thomas Renhard
1. From Sunday 9th February 2014 to Friday 14th February the Union ran a Sexual Health, Awareness and Guidance Week.
2. This gave out contraception and information on sexual health, aiming to better educate and engage students on matters relating to Sexual Health.
3. As part of this week focus groups were run with both the Health Centre and OutUWE on health services on campus and in the Bristol area.
4. The Health Centre currently offers chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing.
5. The Health Centre does not currently offer HIV fast-testing facilities.
6. The Health Centre currently does not run a Walk-in/drop in service for any student to use.
7. The Health Centre does not currently offer a bespoke walk-in service for Sexual Health, forcing students to have to use other services in other parts of the city.
8. The Health Centre currently resides in an old section of Carroll Court housing.
9. Health watch is active in Bristol.
1. The importance of sexual health awareness and adequate facilities that are readily accessible to our student body must be recognised.
2. Better information and access to contraception on campus must be a priority of the Health and Wellbeing agenda of UWE, without any conditions of STI testing being attached.
3. That the request to do a chlamydia test should not take place at the reception desk but in the closed environment of the appointment room.
4. More needs to be done to highlight the importance of getting other tests done, including Syphilis and HIV.
5. As part of the focus groups discussions took place relating to a question over the provision of a walk-in service, with students at the focus groups expressing that this would be a good idea.
6. The university and local health services must ensure easy access to good standards of healthcare for students as well as the local community.
7. An investment should be made to create a much bigger and improved Health Centre on campus as part of the UWE Masterplan.
8. Health watch is an organisation that is able to collate feedback on local NHS services and useful to work with when looking to lobby local health services across Bristol.
1. To continue to run Sexual Health, Awareness and Guidance weeks every academic year, ensuring they are able to have a demonstrable impact on student wellbeing.
2. To lobby the university and the health centre to ensure contraception and information on sexual health is more widely available on campus.
3. To lobby the university and local health services to fund an improved offering at the Health Centre on Frenchay Campus.
4. To lobby the university and local health services to provide a walk-in/drop in service for students to use at the Health Centre on Frenchay Campus that negates the need to always have to have an appointment or need for permanent registration.
5. To lobby the university and local health services to provide a specialised Sexual Health-orientated walk-in service at the Health Centre that is inclusive of the needs of the LGBT community.
6. To lobby the university and local health services to build a newer and more fit-for-purpose Health Centre on Frenchay Campus as part of the Masterplan development.
7. To lobby the university and local health services to ensure that students have good access to Sexual Health services regardless of their campus of study.
8. To lobby the university and local health services to provide the option to do HIV fast-testing and access to post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
9. To assess the feasibility of introducing free “racks” that contain free condoms and other “protection” similar to some nightclub venues in Bristol in our bars and new SU Build.
10. To work with Health watch to achieve these aims.
11. To conduct focus groups with the health centre at least once per year