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Letter to the editor
Access to contraception: why patient choice matters
  1. Seán Richard Cassidy1,
  2. Charlotte Cohen,
  3. Kimberley Forbes,
  4. Nneka Nwokolo,
  5. Sara Day
  1. Directorate of HIV/GUM, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  1. ↵Correspondence to Dr Seán Richard Cassidy; sean.cassidy{at}chelwest.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101775

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    The Department of Health’s ‘A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England’ states an ambition to “increase access to all methods of contraception, including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and emergency hormonal contraception, for women of all ages and their partners”.1 The London Sexual Health Transformation Project is a collaboration between 29 London boroughs aiming to improve access to sexual health and contraceptive services. Their vision is for a network of integrated ‘one-stop shops’ working closely with primary care to provide basic family planning services, with fewer Level 3 centres serving people with more complex sexual health needs.2 Individuals with complex contraception needs may include people living with …

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    • Contributors The letter was written by SRC and reviewed and given final approval by the other four authors who set up and ran the original study.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent This study was a service evaluation.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    • Data sharing statement There are no additional unpublished data from this study.

    • Correction notice This paper has been amended since it was published Online First. Owing to a scripting error, some of the publisher names in the references were replaced with 'BMJ Publishing Group'. This only affected the full text version, not the PDF. We have since corrected these errors and the correct publishers have been inserted into the references.