Free condoms will be offered to pensioners in a bid to combat rising rates of infections among sexually active baby-boomers.

The NHS campaign - the first of its kind - will attempt to target older people who may have thought their days of having to take precautions are long behind then.

It comes as latest figures show a rise in sexually transmitted infections among over 60s.

The three-month campaign, named “Jiggle, Wiggle”, targets mature people in Derbyshire, where local NHS services will hand out condoms via GP surgeries, as well at community venues and food banks.

It follows warnings of a sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections among who came of age in the swinging sixties, with rising divorce rates and a boom in online dating fuelling the surge.

Britain’s chief medical officer has said older women without fear of pregnancy and men who had undergone vasectomies were increasingly putting themselves at risk of infections.

The new drive comes after official figures showed a 25 per cent rise in the number of older men diagnosed with gonorrhea, in just one year.

The statistics from Public Health England show that among those over the age of 65, 216 men were diagnosed with gonorrhea in 2017, compared with 173 in 2016.