Maintaining sexual and reproductive health services in the UK during COVID-19

Introduction

No one can deny that the last 12 months have not been easy. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought chaos in the UK to the National Health Service (NHS), devastation to people’s lives and a change to our way of life that we would never have thought possible. As I write, more than 120 million people worldwide have tested positive for the virus and more than 2.6 million have sadly died.1 The positive news is that a number of vaccines are now licensed, and vaccination programmes are rolling out across the globe with G7 countries agreeing to distribute their surplus to low-income countries.2

Effects of the pandemic on SRH services

The four countries of the UK have striven to keep sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in primary care and the community open, but business is not ‘as usual’. Telemedicine and telephone triage/consultations have become the norm. It is…

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