Title page
Contents
About Public Health England 2
1. Summary 4
2. Charts, tables and maps 8
3. What's going on in the North West 17
4. Information on data sources 18
4.1. GUMCAD surveillance system 18
4.2. CTAD surveillance system 18
4.3. New STIs 18
4.4. Calculations 19
5. Further information and acknowledgements 20
6. About Field Epidemiology Services 21
Table 1. Percentage change in new STI diagnoses: North West residents 9
Table 2. Proportion of North West residents diagnosed with a new STI by ethnicity: 2016 10
Table 3. Percentage change in new STI diagnoses in MSM diagnosed in specialist SHCs: North West residents 12
Table 4. Number of diagnoses of new STIs by PHEC of residence, data source and data subset: 2016 16
Table 5. Number of diagnoses of the 5 main STIs in the North West by STI, data source and data subset: 2016 16
Figure 1. New STI diagnoses by Public Health England centre (PHEC) of residence: England 2016 8
Figure 2. Number of diagnoses of the five main STIs: North West residents, 2012-2016 8
Figure 3. Diagnosis rates of the five main STIs: North West residents, 2012-2016 9
Figure 4. Rate of new STIs per 100,000 residents by age group in the North West, 2016 10
Figure 5. Rates by ethnicity per 100,000 population of North West residents diagnosed with a new STI: 2016 10
Figure 6. Proportions of North West residents diagnosed with a new STI by world region of birth: 2016 11
Figure 7. Diagnoses of the five main STIs among MSM in specialist SHCs: North West residents, 2012-2016 11
Figure 8a. Rate of new STI diagnoses per 100,000 population among North West residents by upper tier local authority of residence: 2016 12
Figure 8b. Rate of new STI diagnoses (excluding chlamydia diagnoses in persons aged 15-24 years) per 100,000 population aged 15-64 years among North West residents by upper tier local authority of residence: 2016 13
Figure 9. Chlamydia detection rate per 100,000 population aged 15-24 years in North West residents by upper tier local authority of residence: 2016 13
Figure 10. Rate of Gonorrhoea diagnoses per 100,000 population in North West residents by upper tier local authority of residence: 2016 14
Figure 11. Map of new STI rates per 100,000 residents by upper tier local authority in the North West: 2016 15