St Hilda's College JCR

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Sexual health

Your sexual health is important, and although it’s often a difficult issue to address this page provides details of the wide network of people who can be contacted if you have any questions or worries. They are all here to help you and everything remains completely confidential.

With any queries, worries or simply requests for Welfare supplies please contact the JCR Welfare Officer. The college has stocks of various condoms, dental dams, and pregnancy tests and if the morning after pill or Chlamydia tests are purchased if the receipts are handed in then you can be fully or in part reimbursed so do get in touch. Supplies will always be pidged in discreet envelopes.

It is important if you are sexually active to get yourself screened for STDs, some of which can be fatal or cause infertility. This process takes no more than an hour, is confidential and free and could save your life or health. For more information contact the JCR Welfare Officer or the clinic in Oxford below for appointments. The college doctors could also provide easily accessible advice from within College.

Oxford GUM
Churchill Hospital
GUM Clinic - Sexual Health Clinic
Phone: 01865 231 231 for details and appointment.s

Opening times:
 Monday: 8.30am - 6pm
Tuesday: 8.30am - 6pm
Wednesday: 8.30am - 6pm
Thursday: 8.30am - 6pm
Friday: 8.30am - 4pm

Mini check Walk-in clinic:
Monday to Friday 1.15pm - 3.15pm

Useful contact details:

OXAIDS (HIV related support and education in Oxfordshire): 01865 243389 or in person at 43 Pembroke Street
FPA (formerly Family Planning Association): 01865 719418, www.fpa.org.uk
HIV and Sexual Health Helpline: 01865 243389
Relationship Counselling: www.relate.org.uk
National AIDS Helpline: 0800 567 123
National AIDS Trust: 020 7814 6767, www.nat.org.uk

JCR Supplies

We have a condom machine in the Hall JCR toilets. You can also email the Welfare Officers Katy Flynn and James Mead and they will pidge you some free of charge. She can also pidge you pregnancy tests; all of these will be delivered discreetly.

Family Planning Clinic

The Alec Turnbull Clinic is Oxford’s family planning clinic located on the left hand side of the Cowley road, about a minute further up from Tesco. You can either phone up for advice or go along in person. It is better to book an appointment first though not necessary. You don’t need to be referred by your GP. The clinic supplies condoms and the contraceptive pill so you don’t have to go to a chemist to get them. They also provide the ‘morning after pill’, cervical smears, on-the-spot pregnancy tests and counselling for unplanned pregnancies.