Today, 23rd of February, IRISi celebrates its 5th anniversary. From the start, our team had one main goal: to promote and improve the healthcare response to gender based violence. Time has passed by and what started as a distant and challenging aim has definitely become a solid and powerful reality.

The IRIS Programme is currently commissioned across over 40 areas of England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland, where it is delivered by local IRIS teams to general practice professionals.

Last year, we also launched our second intervention, the ADViSE Programme, which is training sexual health professionals to also better identify and respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse.

Together, IRIS Programmes have identified and referred over 25,000 women who have been affected by violence and abuse.

Today is a day where we can celebrate our work. Each day that you – Advocate Educator, Clinical Lead, Commissioner or IRISi team member – committed yourself to this work, you contributed directly or indirectly to changing and improving women’s lives.

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