Women across the country can now access the morning-after pill for free from their pharmacy without needing a GP appointment, in a move that the Government said will help ‘reduce unnecessary pressure on GPs’.

Oral emergency contraception will now be available for free without an appointment for those who need it at 10,000 pharmacies across England.

NHS England said the move was the ‘biggest change to sexual health services’ since the 1960s. It is part of a wider expansion of NHS pharmacy services