Factsheets
Our information is available in PDF format, ideal for printing hardcopy or reading
offline as well as online.
Factsheets have been written and edited by:
Edna Astbury-Ward, doctoral research fellow, Centre for Health and
Community Research. Glyndwr University, Wrexham Wales.
Dr Robin Bell,
formerly genitourinary medicine practitioner, St Mary's Hospital, London.
Dr Graham Jackson, Consultant Cardiologist and Sexual Health,
London.
Prof. Margaret Rees, Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Medical
Gynaecologist, Oxford, Professor University of Glasgow.
Dr Daniel Richardson, Consultant & Hon.
Sen. Lecturer in Sexual Health & HIV, Brighton.
Mr David Ralph, Consultant
Urologist & Andrologist, Univ.Coll, London, Inst. of Urology.
Dr
John Tomlinson, GP and Hon. Physician, Men's Sexual Health, Winchester.
Rose Whiteley, Psychosexual Psychotherapist (UKCP Reg; BASRT Acc)
Disclaimer
Reimbursement schemes for drugs and devices used for sexual
problems vary worldwide. For example in the UK, NHS treatment can be
given only to men who:
- have diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease,
poliomyelitis, prostate cancer, severe pelvic injury, spina bifida
or spinal cord injury
- are receiving dialysis for renal failure
- have
had radical pelvic surgery, prostatectomy or kidney transplant
- were
receiving treatment for erectile dysfunction with drugs before 14/9/98
- suffer severe distress as a result of the impotence (prescribed
in special centres only)
