Title: Young people’s sexual health: the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (Executive Summary)
Skinny: This report states that to have a significant impact on chlamydia requires overall testing levels of 26 per cent or above. Only half of Primary Care Trusts reached this level in 2008-09, six years after the Programme’s launch. Combined with the local inefficiencies and duplications, this shows that the delivery of the Programme to date has not demonstrated value for money.
In 2007-08, five years after the Programme’s launch, 4.9 per cent of under-25s were being tested under the Programme, against a target of 15 per cent. In 2007, the Department made the Programme a priority for PCTs, which led to a significant increase in activity; and average testing levels rose to 15.9 per cent by the end of 2008-09, against a target of 17 per cent. Combined with testing in GUM clinics and other settings screening has now reached 26 per cent.
Publisher: NAO
Size of Publication: 38p
Published: 12/11/2009