A UK policy to increase long-term contraceptive methods has boosted prescriptions by about 110,000 over three years. [s]HealthCanal[/s] reports that research, conducted at [b]Imperial College London[/b] and published in [s]PLOS ONE[/s], investigated trends in GP prescriptions of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) after the introduction of an initiative to encourage GPs to improve women’s awareness of them. Although LARCS are more effective than contraceptive pills, the UK is currently lagging behind the rest of the world in its uptake of these methods. Globally about 14-15% of women use LARCs but in the UK the figure is only 9%.
[link url=http://www.healthcanal.com/female-reproductive/49549-gp-incentive-scheme-increases-long-term-reversible-contraceptive-prescriptions.html]Full HealthCanal report[/link]
[link url=http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092205]PlOS ONE full study[/link]