A British survey suggested Saturday the majority of England's sexual health clinics have been unable to cope with demand in the past year, the BBC reported.
Two-thirds of those surveyed said their clinics had to turn some patients away due to overload. The sexual health charities who carried out the survey, Terrence Higgins Trust, the British HIV Association and Providers of Aids Care and Treatment, said the $732 million invested by the government last year had an impact, but they said the money was not getting through to frontline services in some areas.
Some 34 percent said they had "often" turned patients away without offering any medical help, and another 30 percent said they had "occasionally" had to do so.
The charities said most of the patients turned away were unlikely to have been able to access sexual health services elsewhere.
More than half of the specialists said their ability to provide services has got worse over the past year.
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