COVID-19 Resources and Information for SRH Professionals

We recognise that our FSRH members and colleagues will have questions about SRH delivery in the coming weeks and months. We will regularly update this page with resources, links and information to help you access information that is relevant to you.

We aim to share the most up to date information that we have on this webpage, but we advise you to check with your local authority to ensure that you are following the most recent guidance.

FSRH Position: Essential SRH services during COVID-19 March 2020

Guidance for SRH professionals delivering SRH services during the COVID-19 outbreak

SRH Professionals Facebook Group

Join our SRH Professionals Facebook Group to learn how others are continuing to deliver SRH Services at this time during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Read the joint guidance on abortion care during Covid-19

The new guidance by FSRH, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) covers abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Further information: provision of LARC during COVID-19

Where services still have the capacity to do so, they should continue to provide Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) if the risk of not fitting outweighs the risk to the patient and healthcare professional – for example, in emergency situations or for very vulnerable women.

More commonly, services should be looking to extend use of current LARCs (read our clinical statements below) or prescribe other forms of contraception following a telephone assessment.

FSRH Clinical Statements - Contraception and Covid-19

FSRH CEU clinical advice to support provision of effective contraception during the COVID-19 outbreak 20 March 2020.

FSRH CEU recommendation on extended use of the etonogestrel implant and 52mg levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system during COVID restrictions - 20 March 2020.

FSRH CEU: information to support management of individuals requesting to discontinue contraception to plan a pregnancy during the Covid-19 outbreak - 26 March 2020.

Resources from healthcare professionals

Below are resources that SRH professionals have offered to share with peers. Please note that the FSRH has not checked the contents of these documents. If you have a document to share please contact Abby Wright-Parkes, Director of Membership via awrightparkes@fsrh.org

Example of contraception contingency planning during COVID-19 flowchart

Guidance for Men who are unable to submit semen samples post-vasectomy due to Coronavirus

Podcast from Dr Amy - Contraception in the time of Coronavirus