Pharmacy bodies call for nationwide free Emergency Hormonal Contraception Service

In a unified effort to improve women’s healthcare, four leading organisations—the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), the National Pharmacy Association (NPA),
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH)—are calling for the commissioning of a National Emergency
Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service in England.

They are proposing that this service be provided free of charge through community pharmacies to women of all ages across the country.

They emphasised that such a service would “not only transform access to care for all women, but directly tackle health inequalities and vastly improve health
outcomes.”