Contraception Technology Update - 6 July 2019, Bradford

8.30

Registration and Refreshments

9.15

Lecture 1

1. World population, Family Planning and Sustainability

Either we reduce our number voluntarily, or nature will do it for us brutally

Maurice Strong, at the UN Environment conference, Rio 1992

2. New developments in UK Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) including 

Training for Practice Nurses and GPs through the Faculty of SRH

 3. What’s on the way out? Some methods and some practices (like routine follow-ups)

And what in contraception is new - or old news yet important, ripe for rediscovery?

 4. 21st century Pill-prescribing: 21/7 should be ‘History’….The NORM to become, now, the continuous regimens: 365/0 & 84/4 (tricycling)

 5. NuvaRing, Qlaira, Zoely and Eloine = “Yasmin Lite”  – all to be welcomed, for selected cases

 6. Quick-starting & Bridging - and the Proving not Pregnant Protocol

11.00

Refreshments

11.30

Lecture 2

7. Progestogen-only pills & Contraception in Lactation

8. Case cameos

9. The LARCs – unapologetically promoted, AGAIN!

10.Intrauterine contraceptives (IUCs meaning IUDs & IUSs) – the best of the best?

11. Parenteral contraceptives - Depo-Provera, Sayana Press, Nexplanon

12. Hormonal EC & another plug for EC by Cu 

- The protocol to use if progestogens follow ellaOne hormonal EC
- Cu has 10 x greater efficacy, quick-starting, & gives long-term option

13. Sterilization – female and male

14. Diseases and drugs which interact in contraception

15. Contraception in Adolescence and Peri-menopausally

Summary of the morning: 21 messages which may change your practice - or not, if you were already up to speed!

13.00

Summary of the morning and close