Mission Statement

Through education, we will promote safer sexual and reproductive health, and encourage improved sexual protection, for all.

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Philosophy
Sexplained® will, at all times:
· through sexual education about contraception and family planning, promote lifelong learning to avoid unplanned pregnancy and contraction of sexually transmitted infections. In particular, the prevention of HIV and Hepatitis, to people of any age, race, ability, religion or sexual orientation, without prejudice.
· train and update trainers in the field of male and female contraception, sexual and reproductive health.
· strive to liase fully, with the international medical and nursing profession, Governments, NGOs (non-government organisations), pharmaceutical companies, condom manufacturers/distributors and other companies, the media and the public; to promote and disseminate up to date, qualified information.
· promote safest sexual and reproductive health through Sexplained® Edutainment.
· assist Knox Publishing with the national and international promotion of Sexplained® Books.

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What we do:
· Sexplained Ltd specialises in promoting education for superior sexual protection, to the public as well as to the professional.
· Sexplained Training offers a medically based training to trainers and influencers who do not hold a recognised medical or nursing qualification in the following areas, yet are influencing others in these subjects. From 2010 training is also available for professionals working in the field.

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How we do it:
· We have training material in the form of books written for the public as well as the professional, related to contraception, sexual and reproductive health.

We have training courses for trainers and influencers.

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For further information on content, please see
Sexplained Training

Who is involved:
All Sexplained Trainers are hand picked for their ability as highly qualified, experienced and competent practitioners in their field of expertise.

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Core Team members have started up and run extremely successful NHS Outreach projects and have extensive experience of working with hard to reach populations in rapidly changing, innovative ways. We have experience of arranging the UK’s first campaign on local radio, advertising Family Planning Services, highlighting the free condom supply and information about STIs.
· A subsequent article explaining this was published in the British Journal of Family Planning, 1995.
· Core training team members have taught the subject of contraception, sexual health, men’s health and drugs education in clinic, educational and non-clinic settings to members of the public of all ages, as well as to people within their field and profession, from the 'why we say, what we say' angle, for many years.

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Background of core and extended team members:

Helen Knox
RGN, Dip DN, FP & Adv FP A-08 Cert, FAETC:

· Helen trained as a State Registered Nurse at the Westminster Hospital, London in 1975, before working as a Senior Staff Nurse at St Thomas’ Hospital A&E Dept, London and later as a District Nursing Sister in west London. For over a decade, she has worked in the field of contraception and sexual health - From 1991-2001 she worked in the field of contraception and sexual health as the UK’s first Outreach Instructing Clinical Nurse Specialist in Contraception and Sexual Health, in south London.

· In 1994 she was a finalist in the Nursing Times/3M National Nursing Awards for Innovation in Nursing and Midwifery for exceptional work in expanding the outreach work related to Family Planning and Sexual Health.

· Helen has extensive experience in teaching contraception and sexual health to the public as well as her own profession. She works in Family Planning Clinics and teaches in men’s prisons, homeless hostels, drug agencies, probation centres, schools, colleges, civic centres and to sex workers - as well as Schools of Nursing and Universities. Her teaching style is uniquely open and frank - with no holds barred.

· She has two innovation awards, and is author and publisher of SEXplained… Books, founder and Managing Director of Sexplained Ltd and also of Knox Publishing.

See Sexplained.com for further details about her TV, Radio and other educational work in the UK and overseas.

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Karin O’Sullivan RGN, SN, FP Cert.:

Registered General Nurse, St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1984
School Nursing Certificate, Croydon College 1987
ENB 901 Family Planning Certificate, Olive Haydon Midwifery School 1991
Accredited Antenatal Teacher, National Childbirth Trust 1995
Sex Education in Practice, Family Planning Association, Greenwich University 1997
Promoting Sexual Health, Nightingale Institute, Kings College London 1997
Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning, Fertility UK, Greenwich University 1998

Skills and Abilities
Since gaining the ENB 901 Family Planning Certificate Karen has worked extensively with young people as a family planning nurse in a variety of settings - including a regular Family Planning clinic, a joint FP& GUM clinic and in schools.

Experience
· She has considerable experience in the field of Sexual Health Education, having first become involved in developing a whole school programme with a spiral curriculum whilst working as a School Nurse in south London. This developed to involve staff training for both teachers and health professionals.
· Karen is an active member of the Sexual Health Advisory Group - South London and was involved in the innovative establishment of Mock Sexual Health Clinics as well as continuing the development of interactive sex education programmes with pupils.
· She produced a Sexual Health Education teaching pack for use by School Nursing and Family Planning colleagues.
· As an Independent Sexual Health Education Consultant she works in partnership with schools to develop Sexual Health Education Programmes and also lectures regularly on the ‘Sexual Health Needs of Young People’.
· For the past two years she has taken her Family Planning and Sexual Health Education skills to Romania to work with the staff of the Hawkesley Christian Romania Trust and to lecture to Nurses in both Bucharest, Sibiu and Medias.
· To further enhance her teaching skills, she is studying for a Diploma in Higher Education [Antenatal Education] with Luton University for retrospective validation and conversion of her Antenatal Teaching Accreditation with the National Childbirth Trust.
· She is currently working as an Administering Nurse in a ‘Nurse only’ clinic in south London and teaches Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness.

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Alan Wood:
· Alan Wood trained as a Nurse in 1980.
· He practised as a District Nurse for several years in inner-London. Since 1990 he has specialised in training, men's health and sexual health.
· He recently retired after co-ordinating sexual health education in Lewisham and Southwark Schools in south-east London for many years.
· Additionally he practices as a family planning nurse, Brook nurse, clinic nurse at one of only two well men clinics in London and as a psychosexual therapist at Guy's Hospital.
· He also completed his PGCE(A) course at the University of Surrey.

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Barbara Hastings-Asatourian, RGN, RGM, HV
Director of Community and Learning Disabilities Nursing Studies, The University of Salford, School of Nursing
· Barbara has deep and wide-ranging experience in this field. Her introduction was in the Health Service as a Health Visitor between 1976 and 1987.
· As a midwife she was involved in delivering maternity care to many young parents and has engaged in parentcraft education in a variety of community settings.
· Moving into Further Education she incorporated sex and relationship education into her programmes. In 1992 she entered Nurse Education at the University of Salford where she now holds the post of Senior Lecturer / Director of Community and Learning Disabilities Nursing Studies.
· Here she leads Community and Sexual Health Diplomas and Degrees, including Family Planning and Reproductive Sexual Health Education.

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Vicky Padbury RGN, FP & Adv FP A-08 Cert, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing:
· Vicky trained as a Nurse in 1968. She has worked as a Practice Nurse, an Instructing Nurse Specialist in Contraception and Sexual Health and Sex Educator.
· She was Chair of NANCSH (National Association of Nurses for Contraception and Sexual Health) and has sat on numerous UK Govt. Department of Health, and other advisory groups.
· She was invited to be the first Associate Member of the UK Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
· To her credit, she has written many published articles relating to sexual and reproductive health, along with a chapter on Cervical Cytology/Screening in a women’s health publication for professionals.
· She is a consultant to her local health authority’s Teenage Pregnancy Initiative and is on an editorial board of a journal for health professionals.
· She trains nurses in cervical smear taking techniques and is actively involved with school ‘sex and relationship education’ programmes in her locality.
· She has also worked as an advisor on the FPA telephone Helpline, fronting questions from the public and professionals related to contraception and sexual health matters.

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Frances Guillfoyle RGN, FP Cert.,

Nurse Specialist in Men’s Health – Sex Therapist and Lecturer in Human Sexuality

Frances is a leading Nurse Specialist in Men’s Health – Sex Therapist and Lecturer in Human Sexuality

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Carol Wallace – RGN, HV
· Carol is a Registered General Nurse and Health Visitor
· After Health Visiting for many years, she worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in HIV/AIDS for 7 years
· She managed the HIV Service in South London for many years and is now General Manager of an East London contraception and sexual health service.

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Tony Gray – RGN, ENG, Dip Gen, ENB 276 & 934 :Clinical Nurse Specialist in Genito-Urinary Medicine
· Staff Sgt: HM Army
· Tony Gray is an enthusiastic Defence Medical Services Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Genito Urinary Medicine and Sexual Health with more than eight years experience of providing expert nursing care to clients with a range of sexual health conditions, concerns, cultures and sexualities. He has a further eleven years experience of general nursing in ward and operational environments all with the British Army Defence Medical Services both at home and abroad.

· He trained as an Enrolled Nurse General (ENG) in 1986 with the British Army School of Nursing at The Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and The British Military Hospital Hong Kong. In 1994 he moved to Sexual Health and trained as a Defence Medical Services Clinical Nurse Specialist in Genito Urinary Medicine and Sexual Health. Gaining English National Board Qualifications in Genito Urinary Medicine and HIV/AIDS Nursing (ENB 276 & 934). In 1997 he converted his ENG qualification to Registered General Nurse (RGN) through the University of Surrey.

· In 1999, Tony as Publicity Officer (1997-99) of the Genito Urinary Nurses Association (GUNA) joint published a paper with the committee of GUNA in the International Journal of STD & HIV (Sutton A, Kingsland T, Ross S, Burke M, Gray T, Jenkins J (1999) Nursing in Genitourinary Medicine: 10 years on from the Monk Report. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 10: 539-542)

· He currently is Lead CNS with The Department of Sexual Health, The Princess Mary’s Hospital Cyprus. In which he established the new and only NHS style GU & Sexual Health Service on the Island in 1999.

· During this time he has liaised closely with all Defence Medical Services Primary Care Groups, the Police both military and civilian, local public health officials and local owners of clubs, bars and cabarets, which employ commercial sex workers.

· He independently manages client caseloads both from the British Armed Forces, their dependants and local civilian entitled communities, including clinical and sexual history taking, patient examination, diagnosis, treatment, health education and health advising. Incorporating males and females covering diverse cultural backgrounds and sexualities.

· Tony returned to the United Kingdom late in 2002 to commence duties as Lead CNS in The Harrison Clinic of GU Medicine at Frimley Park NHS Trust. He is undertook his BSc (Hon) in Health Promotion with Thames Valley University, in 2003. He left the Armed Services on completion of 22 years in early 2005, to continue to work in the field of Genito Urinary Medicine & Sexual Health.

· Tony was a regular contributor to the Sexplained Cyber Clinics

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Justin Gaffney RN

Justin is now a Nurse Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine, London W2

He is a Director of Metrosexual Health Ltd, a private sexual health service - see www.metrosexualhealth.co.uk for more information.

Formerly he was:

Lead Nurse Practitioner / ManagerWorking Men Project c/o Jefferiss Wing Centre for Sexual Health, St Mary’s NHS Trust Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY

Additional Posts:

Visiting Lecturer (Sexual Health) City & Thames Valley University
Specialist Practitioner (sessional) Mayfair Specialist Nurses
Specialist Practitioner (sessional) NHS Professionals

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Extended Team
We have close links with, and can draw on the involvement and experience of further medical and nursing colleagues working in the field of contraception and sexual health, nationally and internationally, as well as colleagues in the education system and voluntary organisations working in the sexual health field.

Penny Hopkinson
Editor and Publisher: Proprietor of Manual-Writers International, UK
· Manual Writers is an award-winning, full-service independent publishing consultancy, which specialises in producing Operational Manuals in accordance with the Franchise Agreement.
· Each manual is tailor-made to a client's specific requirements to provide the means by which the Franchisor can impose uniformity and conformity across a developing Network.

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Ana Donaldson
· Assistant Professor of Educational Technology, Northern Iowa, USA

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Robbie Gee

Actor, comedian, game show host.
· Films: Snatch, Mean Machine, Greenwich Mean Time, South West 9.
· UK TV: The Manageress, The Firm, Thieftakers, Dream Team, Desmond’s, EastEnders, The Bill , 3 series of The Real McKoy.
· Patron: Sexplained... Foundation

Robbie has worked alongside Sexplained... for many years, helping to promote sexual health to young people via the arts.

Click for more about Robbie Gee

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Eddie Nestor
Actor, comedian, radio presenter, game show host.
· Films: The Trainspotters, The Face.
· UK TV: The Bill, Casualty, East Enders, Desmond’s, Escape from Kampala, Black and Blue, Dempsey and Makepiece, Airport and Blood Brothers for Radio 4, and 3 series of The Real McCoy.
· He has his own show on BBC Radio London (LDN). Helen and Eddie appear together in the BBC Choice TV series- SEX, Warts ‘n’ All, 2002.
· Patron: Sexplained Foundation.

Eddie has worked alongside Sexplained for many years, helping to promote sexual health to young people via the arts.

Click for more about Eddie Nestor

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Senior Medical Advisors

Dr Rimah El-Borai MB Bch (1958) LMSSA (London 1977) MRCS (Eng 1977)
MFFP 1978

Member of the Casualty Surgeon's Association of GB
Instructing Doctor in Family Planning
Member of the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Principal General Practitioner & Honorary Teaching Fellow, Department of
Primary Health Care & General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Dr Ali Kubba MB ChB  FRCOG MFFP

Consultant Community Gynaecologist/Hon Senior LecturerGuy's Hospital/ Guy's Kings and St Thomas' School of Medicine Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr David Lewis PhD MRCP DTM&H

Consultant in Genito-Urinary and HIV Medicine, Guy's  Kings and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust, London

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Ian M Smith
· Ian was a secondary teacher for almost 14 years, most of that time in Fife and Edinburgh.
· He established Learning Unlimited after working for three years as a development fellow at the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum, where he was the main author of their highly acclaimed publication 'Teaching for Effective Learning'.
· Over the last three years he has run workshops involving over 12,000 teachers and developed a reputation as one of Scotland's foremost teacher developers.
· While he wants to help people to get the most out of the present education system, his main aim is to help change it.

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