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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new Public Health Guidance: "Contraceptive services with a focus on young people up to the age of 25".
Penny Barber, Area Director - Brook Midlands, helped to develop the Guidance. She commented:
“Young men and women find it very distressing to face the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy and want to make sure they use the best contraception.
“Local planners and providers of services must make sure that the contraceptive services they offer are appropriate for their area. It is really important that services that offer information and advice can be found in the most convenient places for young people; this may be at college, through drop in clinics or their GP.
“This new guidance aims to ensure that young men and women have easy access to a real choice of the full range of contraceptive methods and support in using them.”
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Notes to editors
Brook believes that young people should have access to great sexual health services and wellbeing support.
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health information, contraception, pregnancy testing, advice and counselling, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education programmes, reaching nearly 235,000 young people nationwide every year.
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