‘This is motivated by women’: NSW Premier grants pharmacists OCP prescribing powers

The age limit for women will also rise to 49.
NSW Premier Chris Minns.

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.