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Nurse SRH training and accreditation in Hull, UK
  1. Marian Everett, MBChB, FFSRH
  1. Carol Totterdell, RN
  1. Peter Gray, DipCOT, MMed Ed
  1. Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, City Health Care Partnership Hull, Conifer House at Wilberforce Health Centre, Hull, UK; Marian.Everett@chcphull.nhs.uk
  2. Professional Development Nurse, Sexual Health, City Health Care Partnership Hull, Longhill Health Care Centre, Hull, UK; Carol.Totterdell@chcphull.nhs.uk
  3. Deputy Dean, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, York St John University, York, UK; p.gray@yorksj.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100539

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    We write in response to the article in the July 2012 issue of this Journal by Shelley Mehigan and Janice Burnett entitled ‘An innovative training for nurses in sexual health’.1 We agree wholeheartedly that a nationally recognised, standardised training for nurses in sexual and reproductive health is needed and that the best way forward may be for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) to accredit nurses or to open up the Faculty Diploma (DFSRH) to nurses. Mehigan and Burnett warn of the dangers of reinventing lots of different wheels. In Hull this is exactly what we have …

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