Recommendation 16

The Government must ensure that the sexual healthcare system works more efficiently and effectively to arrest and reverse the trend in sexually transmitted infections. This will require longer term work to carefully consider how the different parts of the system can work together to achieve this. The Government should work with the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, NHS leaders, the Local Government Association and education bodies to develop the coherent, cross-sector strategy on sexual health it committed to in 2019. It is unacceptable that five years on, no progress has been made. Young people are at the start of their sexual journey. Such a strategy should begin by meeting their needs. (Paragraph 70) The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in young people and other high risk groups 31