Overview

A Patient Requests Emergency Contraception

If a patient contacts us requesting emergency contraception, they should be signposted to local sexual health services or a local pharmacy where they can be best served:

• See Sexual Health Services by borough
• The NHS website service is the most useful method to locate which pharmacies offer free ECPs of closest proximity to the patient. Otherwise most pharmacies offer ECP, but it may not be NHS-funded.

If the patient insists on speaking to someone at the practice:

• if available, they should be offered a same-day emergency appointment with a contraceptive-trained Nurse or Pharmacist
• it must be confirmed that it has been less than 120 hours (5 days) from the time of unprotected sexual intercourse (UPSI)

If the patient is being seen by a Practice Nurse or Pharmacist