All About Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
Sexual and reproductive health refers to a broad range of services that cover access to contraception, fertility and infertility care, maternal and perinatal health, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), protection from sexual and gender-based violence, and education on safe and healthy relationships.
Get support
Spectra
Spectra offers supportive, expert, and non-judgemental peer-led health and wellbeing services including counselling, STI screening, HIV testing and outreach and one to one support.
Website: Spectra London
Telephone: 0800 587 8302 / 020 3322 6920
Email: info@spectra-london.org.uk
Sexual Health London
Sexual Health London is London’s sexual health e-service that provides free and easy access to sexual health testing via the internet and local venues. The service is available to people aged 16 and over who are residents in most Boroughs of London.
The service provides testing for a range of sexually transmitted infections including chlamydia, gonorrhoea, HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and hepatitis C via samples you can collect at home.
Website: Sexual Health London
Terrence Higgins Trust
The Terrence Higgins Trust supports people living with HIV. You can visit their website to access information about HIV, living with HIV, sex and sexual health for trans and non-binary people, and access to services for migrants and refugees. The trust also offers online and offline support options for people living with HIV.
Telephone: 0808 802 1221
Email: info@tht.org.uk
Website: Terrence Higgins Trust
Live chat: THT Direct helpline
The Wolverton Centre at Kingston Hospital
The Wolverton Centre offers consultant-led, free and confidential sexual health services for patients with more complex sexual health & contraception needs.
This includes appointments for:
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STI testing for people with symptoms
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STI treatment
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Routine contraception
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Emergency contraception
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PrEP, PEP
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Vaccinations
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Cervical screening
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Care and advice for patients who have been sexually assaulted
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General advice around prevention
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HIV care
Telephone: 020 8974 9331
Website: The Wolverton Centre
Find a sexual health clinic
Sexual health clinics are free and available to everyone, no matter your age, gender, ethnicity or sexuality.
They may be called genitourinary medicine (GUM), or sexual and reproductive health clinics, and they offer sexual health services.
Visiting a sexual health clinic is confidential. The staff will explain everything, including any tests you may need. Staff at a sexual health clinic will not tell anyone what you discuss without your permission. This includes your GP.
Local sexual health centres offer confidential services, including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), contraception and advice. Many pharmacies also now offer the contraceptive pill without a prescription.
Get free condoms
Condoms are a kind of contraception that helps prevent pregnancy and are the best way to protect you and your partner from sexually transmitted infections. Contraception services are free and confidential on the NHS.
You can get condoms for free from:
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sexual health clinics, also called family planning or contraception clinics
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some GP surgeries and pharmacies
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some young people's services (call the national sexual health helpline on 0300 123 7123 for more information)
You can also buy condoms from pharmacies and supermarkets or online.
Cervical Screening
Cervical screening, which used to be called a smear test, is a test to check the health of the cervix and help prevent cervical cancer.
All women aged 25 to 64 are invited for cervical screening every 5 years. Everyone with a cervix should be offered screening.
Cervical screening is one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer.
PrEP
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is used to reduce the risk of getting HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
PrEP works by stopping HIV from getting into your body and making copies of itself (replicating). You'll only be protected from HIV infection if there are high enough levels of PrEP in your body, so it's important to take it correctly.
PrEP can be used by anyone from a community or group that is most at risk of HIV, or people who have sex with people from those networks.
Support for young people
Getting it on
Getting It On is dedicated to helping young people in south west London and provides information and advice on key issues such as sexual and mental health, drugs, alcohol and relationship problems, and can direct you towards services and clinics across the area.
Website: Getting it on
The Mix
The Mix offers free, confidential support, expert advice and a welcoming community, all designed with and for young people. At The Mix, you can get one-to-one support from counsellors, join live Support Groups, talk on their Community Boards and learn at your own pace with self-help tools.
Website: The Mix
Text 85258 for urgent mental health support
