The trend is highlighted in the trust's fifth annual survey of primarycare trusts and sexual health clinicians.
It also reported that just under two-thirds of primary care trusts saidall or part of their Choosing Health money for public health had beendiverted away from sexual health services. And despite sexual healthbecoming a national health priority for the NHS last year, almost halfof primary care trusts had not assessed local sexual health needs for atleast three years.
The report has led to renewed calls by the trust, the Royal College ofNursing and the NHS Confederation for public health funds to beprotected by ringfencing, a move opposed by the Department ofHealth.
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