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Sexual Health Services

Welcome to County Durham and Darlington Sexual Health Services

We provide innovative services, delivered by a committed, highly skilled workforce to achieve standards of excellence in sexual health.  Our team includes health advisors, doctors, sexual health nurses and support staff who are friendly, non-judgmental and will be happy to advise on any matters related to sexual health.

Our services are free, confidential and open to people of all ages (including under 16s).

We no longer provide walk-in services and all patients requiring advice will undergo a full clinical triage by phone with a qualified staff member in a timescale appropriate to their need.

Due to high demand for sexual health appointments, we are only able to see urgent sexual health cases, such as:

  • Syphilis
  • Gonorrhoea treatment
  • PEP
  • Herpes
  • Abdominal pain
  • Testicular pain

Contraception appointments are available within the service.

Those requiring emergency contraception should in the first instance contact the central booking line (number below) or seek advice via Community pharmacies - please click here to find those providing this service.

Please click the links above to find out more.

Contact telephone numbers are as below:

County Durham

County Durham residents Central Booking Line (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm): 0191 372 8700

Darlington

Darlington Sexual Health Hub (GUM): 01325 743 203

Darlington residents Contraception Central Booking Line: 01325 743 203 - please ring to book an appointment

Darlington Contraception clinics have reopened and are now running at the following times but for both staff and patient safety we will not be offering walk-in appointments for the foreseeable future and this clinic has been replaced with prebookable appointments at the following times:

- Monday 9am-1pm

- Wednesday & Thursday - 4.30pm-8.30pm

- Saturday - 9am-1pm

Follow us on social media:

Facebook Sexual Health County Durham

Facebook Sexual Health Darlington

Twitter County Durham Sexual Health

Twitter Darlington Sexual Health

Key staff 

Clinics 

'The treatment I have received from all the staff has been excellent and could you extend my thanks to them all. A very thankful and relieved patient'.

Patient, Dermatology Outpatients Department, University Hospital of North Durham