The morning-after pill is free at your local pharmacy. All you need to know

Almost 305,000 doses were provided free of charge in England’s high street pharmacies in the first five months of the new contraception service

KL-Pharma/Shutterstock.com Almost 305,000 doses of the morning-after pill were provided free of charge in England’s high street pharmacies in the first five months of the new contraception service, according to new NHS data (October 2025 to March 2026). This figure marks one of the biggest changes in access to emergenc