Request

I am interested in finding data relating to community pharmacy – specifically, the data to show by month, the number of contraceptive initiation consultations delivered per pharmacy via the new contraception service.

Response

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested was not held by the NHS Business Services Authority at the time of your request.

The Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS), initiation supply of Oral Contraception (OC) from community pharmacies, started from 1st December 2023.

The December 2023 data is currently being processed but has not been passed for payment or made available for publication yet.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01772