Health promotion: preventing unwanted teenage pregnancies

In the second of two articles looking at health promotion projects addressing targets set out in the Health of the Nation White Paper (1), the author describes the work of a North Staffordshire family planning clinic which specifically targets young people with contraceptive advice and services including pregnancy testing, rubella vaccination and cervical cytology. Hundreds of young people have attended the clinic since it opened in 1990 and the scheme has been so successful that a similar clinic has been opened in another area.