Genitourinary medicine
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Genitourinary medicine · Dec 1995
"Healthy alliances?"--other sexual health services and their views of genitourinary medicine.
To assess health professionals' views of genitourinary medicine (GUM) services in a large UK city and to determine potential intervention measures for change. ⋯ The response to the questionnaire strongly indicates that there is poor awareness of and consequently suboptimal use of the full range of services offered by GUM. Potential interventions to address this need include increased cross-speciality collaboration and targeting of specific groups of service providers involved in sexual health care. Important groups include hospital-based specialists and voluntary agencies as well as general practitioners. There is a clear need to project the broad range of sexual health services offered by GUM, and to emphasise the role of GUM in managing specific sexual health problems including several sexually transmitted infections.