Health and social work services

Tender description

Contract 1 Dorset County Council, on behalf of Public Health Dorset, shought tenders for multiple providers to deliver emergency hormonal contraception services across the three local authority areas of Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole that will support the aims to: — Increase the knowledge, especially among young people, of the availability of emergency contraception. — Improve access to Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) and sexual health advice. — Increase the use of EHC by women who have had unprotected sex. — By effective use, help contribute to a reduction in the number of unplanned pregnancies. — To signpost service users who may have been at risk of Chlamydia to access a Chlamydia testing kit online. — To provide condoms to service users. — To increase awareness and refer, where appropriate, to the integrated sexual health service for service users contraceptive or STI needs. — To link with and strengthen the integrated sexual health service to help ensure easy and swift access to advice and service for the service user. — To reduce women's reliance on EHC through behaviour change interventions and effective referral for contraception.