Pharmacists extending contraceptive pill scripts is becoming a permanent fixture of the NSW health system.

Last year, the State Government launched a clinical trial of pharmacists extending scripts for certain pill brands to patients aged 35 and under who had taken the pill for at least two years.

But on Thursday, NSW Premier Chris Minns announced it would become permanent policy even without the trial results. The age limit for eligible women will also rise to 49.

The RACGP — which initially worked on the NSW Government’s various pharmacy prescribing trials — has lashed the recent decisions to expand pharmacist prescribing, saying pharmacists treating acne, reflux and wounds was a “politically motivated” policy.