My mother, Jill Tattersall, who has died aged 95, helped to change the face of healthcare by co-founding a clinic providing contraception for unmarried women and underage girls in the 1960s.
She qualified as a doctor in Sheffield in 1956 and started out by training in obstetrics and gynaecology, quickly moving into the new field of family planning. During the 60s, birth control supplied by the NHS was only for married women and there was still a great deal of stigma attached to premarital sex and underage relationships.
