Emergency Hormonal Contraception

Information for Pharmacists

From October 1st 2023 EHC is now avail all patients with no upper age limit.

Pharmacists have to be accredited in prescribing EHC by attending an online training session and have to be SAVVY registered at level 1.

The Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) Patient Group Direction documents (PGD), along with other relevant EHC documents, can be found below.

UPA PGD – 2023 – Oct

LNG PGD – 2023 – Oct

Decision making algorithm[25905]

EHC Service Spec Final 201923 Final