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Health
Farid Farid

'Gives women options': chemists to prescribe the pill

NSW is the latest state to expand access to contraception beyond the GP's office to pharmacies. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Women waiting weeks and months in regional areas to get a doctor's appointment for a prescription for the pill can now head to their local pharmacy.

NSW is the latest state to expand access to contraception beyond the GP's office after Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania enacted similar changes.

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