Teenage Health Outreach Clinic
We are lucky enough to have funding to provide a Teenage Health Outreach Clinic at Fakenham School & College which is open to all students of both the High School and College. The clinic is a nurse led drop in clinic held once a week on alternate Fridays and Wednesdays term time only. The clinic is held on a Wednesday the clinic is held in the Bungalow at the High School and on Friday at the Collage in meeting room 2. The clinic takes place for 2 hours from the start of the lunch hour (1.30pm - 3:30pm). At the start of each term students will be informed of which room is available on which date.
The clinic Provides:
- Free confidential pregnancy testing
- Free Chlamydia screening
- Free condoms, C-card scheme run by nurse Sharon Stebbing
- First and ongoing prescription for contraceptive pill; combined pill and progesterone only pill.
- Prescription for contraceptive injection -given by the nurse in the clinic
- All contraceptives are provided free of charge
- Morning after pill - this ideally needs to be taken within 24 hours of having unprotected sex but can be taken upto 72hours after sex, however it becomes less effective the longer you leave it!
- Referral to local GP for access to abortion/pregnancy advice services
- Advice on common minor illnesses
- Advice regarding stopping smoking
- Healthy eating advice and weight management
What the clinic is not able to offer
- Prescripton for Implanon and the coil however the nurse running the clinic is able to arrange an appointment at Fakenham Surgery with a GP who is able to discuss this with you
- Emergency coil after unprotected sex - this can be fitted up to 5 days after the last unprotected sex. This is only available for all patients at the local family planning clinics. Please see the links page for contact details.
- All of the nurses who run the clinic are female. If you wish to see a male practitioner there are 4 male GPs based at Fakenham surgery, who are available by appointment only 5 days a week Monday - Friday. There is a male youth worker based at Fakenham High School who also may be able to help.