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Emergency Contraception

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Summerfield Urgent Treatment Centre provides emergency oral contraceptive for patients.

Emergency contraception (morning after pill)

Emergency contraception can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or if the contraception you have used has failed – for example, a condom has split or you have missed a pill. We can provide the following contraception options:

  • the emergency contraceptive pill – Levonelle or ellaOne (the “morning after” pill)

Who can use the emergency pill?

Most women can use the emergency contraceptive pill. This includes women who can’t use hormonal contraception, such as the combined pill and contraceptive patch. Girls under 16 years old can also use it. But you may not be able to take the emergency contraceptive pill if you’re allergic to anything in it, have severe asthma or take any medicines that may interact with it, such as:

  • the herbal medicine St John’s Wort
  • some medicines used to treat epilepsy, HIV or tuberculosis (TB)
  • medicine to make your stomach less acidic, such as omeprazole
  • some less commonly used antibiotics (rifampicin and rifabutin)

Service waiting times

The service waiting time can be up to 4 hours on busy days. Some days it may be over 4 hours due to patient emergencies and they will take priority over walk in patients and those that has been allocated a 111 face to face appointment. We will endeavor to see every single walk in patient, however, if we have reached capacity, you will be be asked to reattend the following day or call 111 service for advice and if required, out of hours services.

Patient notice

Our service is open 365 days a year between 8am and 8pm. You do not need an appointment to use Summerfield Urgent Treatment Centre but to avoid waiting times, you are advised to call 111, they will refer you to our service for a telephone call back and if appropriate an appointment time can be given.

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