AQW 7660/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of free sexual health home testing kits dispatched to Northern Ireland residents on a weekly basis for the last three months.
Asked by Andrew Muir MLA on 25 September 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 25 September 2020
- Answer due by
- 12 October 2020
- Answered
- 14 October 202019 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The HSCB and PHA continue to work with all Health and Social Care Trust genitourinary medical (GUM) teams to agree, disseminate and deliver a service model that is fit for delivery under pandemic circumstances. This will reduce face to face patient contact to the minimum essential for patient safety and therefore will rely heavily on sexually transmitted infections (STI) online testing for monitoring of patients taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
In total there were 1,973 orders for STI home testing kits issued in June; 2,600 in July and 1,886 in August. The statistics for September will not be issued for another 3 weeks.