The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7441 p237
3 March 2007

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NICE guidance
• Preventing sexually transmitted infections and reducing under 18 conceptions
• Antenatal and postnatal mental health
• Leukaemia (lymphocytic) - fludarabine

NICE recommends sex advice

One-to-one advice on preventing sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies should be provided from a variety of health service outlets, including pharmacies, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has recommended.

Such interventions could be provided as part of an enhanced service under the community pharmacy contract by appropriately trained pharmacists, NICE suggests. The guidance also considers how at-risk individuals can be identified and helped and inequalities in sexual health problems addressed.

NICE also issued guidance on antenatal and postnatal mental health disorders and recommended that fludarabine monotherapy should not be used in lymphocytic leukaemia.