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Health and Safety

Here, you will find essential information about vaccinations, guidance on registering with a local medical practice, and how to access sexual health services - including information on STI testing, contraception and guidance on self-sampling kits.

Vaccinations

During your time at university, it’s important to make sure you are up to date with your vaccinations. Please consult your doctor to ensure you’ve had the vaccines below, and if you haven’t, try to arrange to have them as soon as you can.

Registering with a local medical practice

It is important to register with a local medical practice so that you can access healthcare easily whilst you’re at Warwick.

If you are living on campus, within the catchment area, or in Kenilworth or Leamington, you’ll be able to register with our campus based National Health Service (NHS) Health Centre.Link opens in a new window New students can register with the Health Centre via the Enrolment Dashboard

Your sexual health

Find open access sexual health services near you including health clinics, and free STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing and treatments, as well as emergency contraception, free condoms, pregnancy testing, sexual health advice and referrals for pregnancy advisory service and abortion.

STIs - what are they?

  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common and can be passed on during sex or through sexual contact.
  • Different STIs will have different symptoms and how soon symptoms appear depends on the type of STI you have. They can usually be treated at a sexual health clinic. But a lot of people won’t experience any symptoms which is why regular testing is so important.
  • The best way to protect yourself and your partner is by using condoms – remember to use them consistently and correctly when having sex with a new or casual partner.
  • A particular type of antibiotic-resistant strain is more common in the Asia-Pacific and there has recently been an increase in cases of this strain in UK students from the Asia-Pacific. If you have recently travelled to the UK from here and have STI symptoms, get an STI test. Even if you don’t have STI symptoms.

Get tested. Get treated

  • If you’re having sex with new or casual partners, regular STI testing is essential for your overall health and wellbeing.
  • Everyone having sex without a condom with new or casual partners should get an STI screen, including a HIV test, at least annually.
  • Sexually active women & those with a uterus or ovaries and aged under 25 should screen for chlamydia each year or when they change partners.
  • Gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men should test for STIs and HIV every 3 months if having sex without a condom with new or casual partners.
  • Find local sexual health services and support or find a local sexual health clinic here.

STI self-sampling kits:

  • Many sexual health services in England now offer free STI self-sampling kits for people who aren’t showing any symptoms or signs of an STI and would prefer a routine check-up in the comfort and privacy of their own home.
  • These self-sampling kits can be used to test for the most common STIs, including Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea, as well as for other STIs such as Syphilis and HIV.
  • The self-sampling kit will arrive in the post in a plain unmarked envelope or letterbox-friendly box and will have everything you need to take the samples, and a freepost return label to send them back.
  • You take samples yourself and then send them to a laboratory to be tested and get your results back in a few days.

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