BASHH

Members

• Rachel Sacks (Chair) rachel.sacks@imperial.nhs.uk
• Rageshri Dhairyawan (Secretary) rdhairyawan@doctors.org.uk
• Carol Emerson (Past Chair)
• Greta Forster
• Beata Cybulska
• Rimi Shah
• Emma McCarty
• William Spice
• Ali Mears
• Charlotte Cohen
• Kate Shardlow
• Catherine White (Representative of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine)

• Christine Donohue 

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Terms of Reference- pending

Current Projects

• National survey of GUM/HIV  provision of services for complainants of sexual violence- to be published
• National Survey of GUM/HIV specialist trainees' experience and training needs in managing patients who have experienced sexual violence- to be published

Future projects

• Development of generic patient information leaflets that can be locally adapted for use in GUM/HIV clinics nationally
• Review of and possible development of specific StR training to address the gaps in sexual violence training identified in the recent survey (see above)

Opportunity to become an examiner for the DFCASA exam, Society of Apothecaries

Please see the next BASHH newsletter for details

Guidelines, National Organisations and Service Providers

BASHH Guidelines: Managment of Adult and Adoslescent complainants of Sexual Assault. The Management of Adult and Adolescent Complainants of Sexual Assault 1

The Havens http://www.thehavens.co.uk/

St Mary's centre, Manchester http://www.stmaryscentre.org/

Care and Evidence http://www.careandevidence.org/

Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine http://fflm.ac.uk/

• The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine Guidelines on Paediatric Forensic Examinations in Relation to Possible Child Sexual Abuse http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Guidelines%20on%20Paed%20For%20Exam%20Possible%20Abuse%20FINAL%20update%20060209.pdf

Related organisations/useful resources

• Know Where to Go-A directory of services in London for women who have experienced violence. http://www.eaves4women.co.uk/Documents/Directories/KnowWhereToGo.pdf
• Greater London Authority. London.gov.uk. Violence against women section: Know where to go http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/crime-community-safety/tackling-priority-crimes/violence-against-women/know-where-to-go
• Award winning Haven campaign 'Where is your line?' http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHavensCentres
• Eaves is a London-based charity that provides high quality housing and support to vulnerable women http://www.eaves4women.co.uk/
• Male Sexual abuse organisation www.survivors.org.uk
• Domestic Abuse Directory http://www.womensaid.org.uk/
• SEARCH FOR YOUR LOCAL SARC: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/ServiceSearchAdditional.aspx?ServiceType=RapeAndSexualAssaultSupport

• March 2012: The Home Office has launched a campaign to increase awareness of teenage rape for girls and boys.

  http://thisisabuse.direct.gov.uk/

Courses and Further Qualifications

• The Havens courses http://www.thehavens.co.uk/courses.php
• St Mary's Manchester forensic courses and annual conference: http://www.stmaryscentre.org/professional-area/st-marys-training-and-events/
• Diploma in the Forensic and Clinical Aspects of Sexual Assault (DFCASA) http://www.apothecaries.org/index.php?page=120
• Article re: sitting the DFCASA exam: DFCASA JFLM 2012.19.48
• BMA Conference entitled Forensics- Moving forward. 

  A conference on the future of clinical forensic medicine under NHS commissioning. 28th May 2012. http://www.bma.org.uk/whats_on/employment_related_courses/fme2012.jsp

• Information for nurses re training in forensic nursing: please see UKAFN (UK Association of Forensic Nurses) website: http://www.ukafn.org/about/about.htm

• Faculty of Forensic Medicine update training days http://fflm.ac.uk/events/