Total diagnoses of selected sexually transmitted infections (STIs) attending genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics among females aged under 16 and females aged 16-19, in the Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT), 1999 to 2005, are shown in the following table:
Females under 16 Females 16-69 1999 10 248 2000 14 258 2001 22 257 2002 19 328 2003 26 339 2004 22 412 2005 29 436 Notes: 1. Selected STIs include: infectious syphilis, uncomplicated gonorrhoea, anogenital herpes simplex (first attack), anogenital warts (first attack) and uncomplicated Chlamydia infection. 2. KC60 data is not available by age group 16-18, so the number of diagnoses for the age group 16-19 is presented. 3. Lincolnshire Health Authority has ceased to exist, however the boundaries are coterminous with the current Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) boundaries. The table includes data since 1999 from all GUM clinics that currently belong to Lincolnshire Teaching PCT. This does not include data from North Lincolnshire PCT and North East Lincolnshire PCT. 4. The data available relate to diagnoses made in clinics in the Lincolnshire Teaching PCT, but as GUM clinics are open access services the individuals diagnosed are not necessarily resident in this PCT. Source: ST1 KC60 statutory returns from 1999 - 2005, Health Protection Agency.