The service is a free primary care based sexual health and contraception service for under 25-year olds.
The aim is to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young people and to improve access to first level GP services in order to facilitate:
The objectives of the service are to:
Your Pinnacle Services Contract applies to this service. By claiming for this service, you have indicated that you have read and agreed to the business rules set out here.
This is NOT a clinical guideline.
All Pinnacle practices in Tairāwhiti region can claim for this service.
Pinnacle practices can accept self-referrals and provide the following services:
Referrals may also come from various sources, including midwives, sexual health clinics, marae health clinics, and other sources.
All young people under 25 years of age seeking contraceptive advice or clinical service are eligible, regardless of enrolment stats, i.e. the service is available to both casual and enrolled young people.
The service is principally aimed at young men and women who are:
The service can only be delivered by a GP/NP (or their locum) or practice nurse through a Pinnacle practice.
People 25 years and older are not eligible for the service.
Services that cannot be claimed under this service include:
Each consultation is stand alone. A young person can access the service on multiple occasions.
This price is inclusive of GST
Sexual health consultation – GP or nurse: $32.20
Claims will only be paid on completion of the electronic form, provided by Pinnacle Midlands Health Network
All fields of the form must be completed.
You will be asked to select a consultation reason. Select from:
Date of consultation, provider type (GP or nurse) and basic demographic information is also collected.
No. No co-payment is allowed if claiming for the consult under this service.
This service is funded from Pinnacle's flexible funding budget.
Sally Newell, Regional Support Manager - Clinical Contracts
sally.newell@pinnacle.health.nz
021 150 8788
Annually, thousands of youth in communities across the Waikato region struggle to access health care services, restricted by barriers such as cost, lack of transport and fear of talking to a health care professional.
Read moreDue to a staff vacancy, less Sexual Health Clinic appointments are currently available. Referrals from general practice are still welcomed, but please be aware patients requiring biopsy may need to be waitlisted for service. Alternatively they could be referred to other services such as dermatology, gynaecology or urology. View the updated opening hours here.
This programme provides funding for contraceptive consultation including administration of Depo Provera, and the insertion of contraceptive implants and IUDs to target populations. Vasectomies for priority men are funded under this programme.
View detailsThe following links provide further LARCs related information.