SRH Essentials

One-day online training covering contraception and STIs for primary care practitioners

At Margaret Pyke Trust, we work to ensure that quality sexual and reproductive health care is accessible to all by training healthcare professionals. We also know that increasingly service users are turning to primary care to access this, instead of specialised sexual health clinics, and we want to empower these professionals to feel confident to provide unbiased sexual and contraception health counselling.

Designed by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, SRH Essentials is aimed specifically for healthcare practitioners working in primary care settings. SRH Essentials is an interactive one-day course with scenario based learning, presentations, time for discussion and questions. It is relevant for those needing an introduction to SRH and also provides a useful update for more experienced staff.

"Fabulous course, great it was interactive as keeps you on your toes and engaged" - participant who attended our SRH Essentials course in 2025

SRH Essentials is not a competency based course and it is not assessed. SRH Essentials is open to anyone with a professional registration (GMC, NMC, GPhC, PAMVR or HCPC) including:

• GPs
• Nurses
• Physicians Associates
• Paramedics
• Pharmacists
• Midwives
• Other Healthcare Professionals working in Primary Care

On completion of SRH Essentials, participants will have the skills and confidence to:

• Recommend an appropriate method of emergency contraception
• Assess when a patient is at risk of pregnancy
• Reissue the COC, POP and injection contraceptive methods
• Carry out sexual health risk assessments
• Identify when a patient is at risk of STIs and undertake STI tests