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Mystery Shopper Executive Summary Final Report supplementary tables 2006  Key Clinical Indicators for Sexual Health Moving Forward  (4mb)

"Mystery Shopper" Study 2007 - A study of service access for acute STIs in Scotland

"Respect and Responsibility: Strategy and Action Plan for Improving Sexual Health" highlighted the need to monitor sexual health service development both nationally and at an NHS Board level. A set of five key clinical indicators (KCIs) has already been developed. Key clinical indicator nine is part of the second phase of indicators, currently in development.

Key clinical indicator (KCI) 9 assesses service access for individuals with symptoms suggestive of an acute STI. The rationale for KCI9 is to ensure that a priority group of people have prompt access to services, both to reduce the distress and anxiety associated with symptoms as well as reducing potential onward transmission.

A "Mystery Shopper" methodology, healthy people masquerading as individuals with symptoms suggestive of an acute STI, has been used to collect this information.

To access the report on this study, please click the link in "latest" box.

Supplementary Tables 2006

The supplementary tables showing information on activity in Scottish Genitourinary Medicine clinics have been updated to include data for 2006.

This update, which presents data on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and workload in GUM clinics, was timed to coincide with the Health Protection Agency's UK wide GUM clinic data . 

Mandatory 'service codes' were introduced to each record in 2005.  These provide a more accurate picture of screening services offered to each patient when they first attend a Scottish GUM clinic.  These new 'service codes' replaced those previously used for recording a negative STI/HIV test. Some records may now show only a service code, whereas in the past a non-specific diagnostic code would have been recorded.  This change should be borne in mind when examining trends in workload, particularly when considering activities, which are not related to specific sexually transmitted infections.

Moving Forward, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Including HIV, in Scotland, 2005

This is the second report (4Mb) produced by the recently formed Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemiology Advisory Group (STIEAG) which includes representatives from a variety of clinical and non-clinical disciplines, and is jointly organised by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and the Information Services Division (ISD) both of NHS National Services Scotland.

We have attempted to amalgamate data and information from laboratories and Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinics, and to include data from other sources, such as primary care, together with some of the more specialised data collection systems relating to HIV.

For a report encompassing the whole of the UK, click here .