Doctors demand national screening for chlamydia

Public health doctors have derided the slow progress towards a national screening programme for chlamydia as “disgraceful.”

The BMA's annual conference of public health medicine called on the government to roll out screening across the United Kingdom as a matter of urgency.

Dr Howard Barnes, who proposed the motion, said the absence of a national programme had led to a high volume of uncoordinated testing.

“In a district near me in Yorkshire 14 000 people have been tested. That is out …