For NTU Students
We offer STI testing for non-symptomatic patients under 25 years old .
Please submit an online triage request or call the Student Health Centre to book an appointment.
An STI check-up will test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, HIV and Syphilis. The check-up will involve a discussion about your sexual history and any risks that you may have had and depending upon your individual circumstances you may need:
- to provide a urine sample
- to take a swab yourself
- a blood test
If you have been experiencing symptoms, you will need to arrange an appointment with the sexual health clinic by calling 01159 627 627.
Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea testing ONLY is available on a drop in basis, please pick up a test pack from reception. We have STI testing kits available at Radford Medical Practice and the Student Health Centre. If you’re a registered patient here, feel free to pick up a testing kit and use our toilets to carry out the test or take it away with you. Bring it back to reception once completed and we’ll send it off to the lab for testing. Get in contact with us within a week for the results.
Condoms
We have a supply of free condoms available at the Student Health Centre. Healthy NTU also run a Condom scheme where you can sign up for condoms to be posted out to you once a week.
For All Patients
Online Testing:
If you do not have any symptoms you can access online testing.
If you have a Nottinghamshire postcode, you can access online testing at https://www.freetest.me
If you have a Nottingham City postcode then you can access free online a testing, repeat contraception and emergency contraception online at SH:24
External Sexual Health Services:
Victoria Health Centre – Offer a comprehensive contraception service including general advice, contraceptive pills, patches and the depot injection. They also offer the morning after pill , implant fitting and removal, the contraceptive coil and the ‘mirena’ coil. Please call them on 0115 962 7627.
The Health Shop– Offer non-invasive testing for sexually transmitted infections for people who don’t have any symptoms. They are a C-Card registration and pick-up point and offer HepB vaccinations, condoms, lube, gloves and dams, emergency contraception and pregnancy testing. Please call them on 0115 969 1300. The Health Shop also offer video consultations so please request this if it is a service you’d like to use when you contact them.
Gonorrhoea
Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus. It used to be known as “the clap”.
Gonorrhoea is easily passed between people through:
- unprotected vaginal, oral or anal sex
- sharing vibrators or other sex toys that have not been washed or covered with a new condom each time they’re used
Typical symptoms of gonorrhoea include a thick green or yellow discharge from the vagina or penis, pain when peeing and, in women, bleeding between periods. But around 1 in 10 infected men and almost half of infected women do not experience any symptoms.
Gonorrhoea and other STIs can be successfully prevented by using appropriate contraception and taking other precautions, such as:
- using male condoms or female condoms every time you have vaginal sex, or male condoms during anal sex
- using a condom to cover the penis or a latex or plastic square (dam) to cover the female genitals if you have oral sex
- not sharing sex toys, or washing them and covering them with a new condom before anyone else uses them
Treatment for Gonorrhoea is available at the Sexual Health Clinic based in the Victoria Health Centre.
