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Article: School nurses uneasy over condom duty; Royal College of Nursing calls for any wider sexual health role to cover relationship issues
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 20, 2002
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Plans for school nurses to provide sexual health advice and family
planning services are being discussed by the government expert group
charged with drawing up Scotland's strategy to reduce teenage
pregnancies.
In June the Department of Health announced plans for school nurses
to provide confidential advice and practical help with pregnancies in
English schools. School nurses in England can even prescribe the
morning-after pill. But the changing role of the school nurse is set
to prove more controversial in Scotland facing opposition from
religious and family groups.
And school nurses themselves are reluctant to hand out
contraception unless this is part of a wider role providing ...