Liverpool teenagers will soon be able to get sexual health advice at their school when clinics are set up across the city.
As part of a push to make sexual health services more accessible in Merseyside, Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) is in talks with secondary schools to provide space for the clinics.
According to a PCT statement, schools will take part voluntarily in the project, which is in its "infancy" and is aimed at vulnerable, hard-to-reach young people who would not usually visit a health service.
The statement read: "It aims to improve young people's access to sexual health education and support in non-traditional settings, which are regularly and readily accessed by young people."
NHS Wirral launched a similar trial of clinics in 13 secondary schools last year to give sexual health support and advice on mental health and giving up cigarettes. It proved so successful the scheme will soon cover all 29 schools in the area.
Project leader Gordon Fair said: "Initial indications have shown that health services in school teams are providing early identification on a range of potential health-related issues.
"We have found that many young people are being helped and guided on issues including smoking, alcohol use and associated risk-taking behaviours."
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