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Visiting a Centre

Family Planning NSW centres - friendly and confidential
Our centres are for everyone - men and women of all ages
You do not need a referral to visit our centres
Please phone to make an appointment, or to find out the times for drop-in sessions at centres
Family Planning NSW's staff are professional, friendly and helpful
Our services are very affordable - most consultations are at no cost
To help us continue to provide quality services, we invite you to make a small once-a-year donation

Family Planning NSW services include:

Advice and supply on all forms of contraception for men and women
Pap tests and breast checks
Pregnancy tests
Help with menstrual problems and menopause
Vasectomy Referrals
Checks and treatment for sexually transmitted infections
Information on contraception, fertility, sterilisation, sexual problems, pregnancy, menopause
Referral to other health and welfare providers
Community information and health promotion activities

Your Rights as a Client

Staff of Family Planning NSW will give you all possible assistance to make relevant and informed choices about your health and well-being. As someone using our services you have a right to:

Courteous, non-discriminatory service
Be listened to respectfully and to have any condition, test or treatment explained to you in a way you can understand
Confidentiality
Complain or comment to staff or management on any aspect of the service you receive
See your health record as long as a health professional is also present. You may also add comments to your record.
Have an advocate of your choice present to help you in communicating your needs to staff.

Health Promotion

Family Planning NSW's health promotion teams aim to improve and maintain the reproductive and sexual health of our community. We do this through a wide range of professional and community-based services.

Our focus is reproductive and sexual health, with specific expertise in:

HIV/AIDS and heterosexual men, women and people with an intellectual disability
puberty and adolescent sexuality
anti-homophobia
sexuality for people with a disability, including the implications of the Disability Services Act; and
multicultural sexuality.

We offer professional education services for a range of professions, including:

teachers;
youth workers;
disability workers and service managers;
social workers; and
carers.

Our community-based education services are used by many groups, including:

young people
parents;
people living with HIV/AIDS;
people with disabilities; and
people from non-English speaking backgrounds, particularly newly arrived communities.

We are also experts in print and audio-visual resource production, particularly multicultural and low-literacy materials.

Our professional staff are located in metropolitan Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, but are also happy to travel and work in rural areas, and indeed have a long history of doing so.

All services can be tailored to meet the needs of specific agencies or groups, and our fees are negotiable.

Call 02 8752 4300 for more information.