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# New suite of e-learning resources to help improve care to LGBTQ+ patients
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/new-suite-of-e-learning-resources-to-help-improve-care-to-lgbtq-patients/
- Published: 2020-01-27T11:11:05.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-27T11:11:05.000Z
- Description: A new suite of e-learning resources to help improve care to LGBTQ+ patients
- Author: Scene Editorial Team

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The **Royal College of General Practitioners** has launched a new suite of e-learning resources to help GPs provide the best possible care to **LGBTQ+ patients.**

The suite, designed in partnership with the **Government Equalities Office**, contains podcasts and screencasts, plus six online training modules that provide GPs and other healthcare professionals evidence-based, up-to-date information to deal with the health needs of LGBTQ+ patients.

The six modules are:

- Inequality in healthcare provision – the current state of LGBTQ+ health: providing a current overview of LGBTQ+ health in the UK, identifying health inequalities and exploring how these could be improved
- Creating an inclusive primary care environment: exploring changes that can be made both in the GP surgery and during the GP-patient consultation to have a positive impact on LGBTQ+ patient outcomes
- Mental health and suicide prevention: highlighting health, wellbeing and service provision issues affecting LGBTQ+ patients and looking at how they can be addressed
- Screening issues in the LGBTQ+ population: exploring issues around screening in the LGBTQ+ community, specifically best practice for the cervical smear process in trans men and non-binary people with a cervix
- The older LGBTQ+ patient: exploring the unique health needs of older LGBTQ+ patients
- Sexual and reproductive needs of the LGBTQ+ community: exploring sexual and reproductive health needs of LGBTQ+ patients, including advice for LGB women who wish to conceive and the use of pre and post exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV

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Professor **Martin Marshall**, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: *“GPs are highly-trained to deliver high-quality, non-judgemental care to all our patients. We want to ensure LGBTQ+ patients receive good, safe care, and that they can access our services when they need them.*

*“We hope that the new e-learning resources – based on the latest clinical evidence – will prove valuable in supporting frontline GPs and our teams to deliver the best possible care for every LGBTQ+ patient we see.”*

**Baroness Williams**, Minister for Equalities, added: *“Everyone must be able to access appropriate healthcare and be treated with respect no matter their sexuality.*

*“It’s great medical professionals now have access to these online modules, allowing this vital training to fit around their busy schedules, developing their delivery of LGBTQ+ inclusive healthcare.”*