Contraceptive Update

Online Training 15th of April 2024 from 09:00 - 13:30

Course Provider PCCPD

Please note that there are a limited number of fully funded places on this course for eligible candidates employed within General Practice.

Staff that qualify to attend funded sessions:

Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Specialists
Extended Role Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses
Nursing Associates
Nursing Partners
Nurse Dispensers
Podiatrists
Physiotherapists
Therapists
Paramedics

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN UPDATE COURSE FOR THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY ADVISING ON PROGESTOGEN ONLY CONTRACEPTION AND THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY ADVISING ON COMBINED HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS SUBJECT YOU WOULD NEED TO ATTEND AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE, THIS COURSE WOULD NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOU.

Course Content

• Update on and use of Progestogen Only Pills
• Update on and use of Depo injections including Sayanna Press
• Information on Progestogen only implants & intrauterine devices
• Use of emergency hormonal contraception
• Covid precautions
• Use of remote prescribing of POC using FSRH guidelines and PCWHF advice and restarting POC LARC methods

• Use of UKMEC
• Use of Guidance
• Recap risks and benefits
• Which pill/patch/ring to choose
• Regime changes
• Missed pills
• Follow-up during Covid restrictions

This programme is based on the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, UKMEC 2016 Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (updated 2019).

Please note that as this course is provided by an outside company, we will need to share your name and email address with them, so they can send you the course link.

If you have any queries please contact traininghub@taurushealthcare.co.uk