ABSTRACT
Sexual healthcare commissioned by local authorities encompasses all aspects of physical and psychological sexual health well-being. Doctors and healthcare professionals realised there were patients unable to be helped by physical treatments, hence the initial interest by family planning doctors in sourcing training and guidance in the subject, resulting in the formation of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine in 1974. Sexual healthcare commissioned by local authorities encompasses all aspects of physical and psychological sexual health well-being. General practitioners as clinicians are trained to diagnose and manage the whole spectrum of physical and mental health, as well as promote and deliver preventative care. Services may be combined, offering physical treatments too. This can be appropriate but possibly tempts clinicians to jump to pharmacological remedies and devices first, especially if the emotional avenue is too challenging or stressful, the ‘opening a can of worms’ scenario subconsciously feared by many clinicians.
