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RCGP calls for better support for sexual and reproductive health services
The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has warned that recent improvements to the quality of sexual and reproductive healthcare services could be reversed without better funding support.
A new report called Time To Act has been launched by the college following a consultation with its 50,000-strong membership, which suggested that growing bureaucratic, financial and training barriers facing GPs and practice teams are endangering these services.
Numerous GPs have raised concerns that rates of teenage pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases will rise due to vulnerable patients losing access to the most appropriate forms of contraception, meaning health inequalities will widen.
Particular difficulties were cited among patients living in rural areas trying to access sexual and reproductive health services, as well as younger patients who rely on their parents for transport.
The report blamed the "complex and fragmented" way these services are currently commissioned in England, as well as the fact that the funding GP surgeries receive for providing services does not often cover costs.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the RCGP, said: "So much progress has been made in this area in recent years, and the service is too important to be allowed to fall into decline."
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