Will Australia follow the UK in making the pill OTC?

Allowing the sale of one contraceptive-pill formulation without a script in British pharmacies has been dubbed 'a momentous occasion'
Clare Pain
Pharmacist and young woman patient

The progesterone-only pill desogestrel can now be purchased from pharmacies in the UK without the need for a doctor’s script.

The landmark decision makes Britain the first industrialised nation to allow purchase of an oral contraceptive OTC.