Information for practitioners who refer patients to the Centre for Sexual Medicine.
The Närhälsan Sexualmedicinskt centrum (Centre for Sexual Medicine, SMC) is a unit that works on an interprofessional basis with sexual issues from both a medical and psychological perspective. Our catchment area is the Västra Götaland Region. Certain patients with sexual problems should in the first instance be examined at a primary health care centre, others at a psychiatric clinic or gynaecology outpatient clinic.
Before you send a referral to us, could we please ask you to read the Regional Medical Guidelines regarding the interfaces general medicine/gynaecology and general medicine/psychiatry.
In your referral to us, we require information about:
• Patient’s contact details
• Possible interpreting requirements and the language(s) in question
• The specific problem
• The issue at hand
• Your expectations of the CSM with regard to treatment of the patient
• The patient’s expectations of the CSM
• Previous counselling
• Previous medical treatment
• Current medication
• Previous trauma episodes
• Possible chronic disease
• Possible psychiatric diagnosis
• Possible examination of the patient to determine if their problem could be somatic and, if so, details of the procedure.