title: The first three months of free contraception in a market-town group practice.
abstract: Contraceptive services became free to patients of general practitioners in the British National Health Service on 1 July 1975. We report the numbers of patients advised in a practice of 6,612 patients during the first three-month period and found that in a sample of 211 women, just over half had received medical advice. The financial implications are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception / Q000379:methods; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006123:Group Practice; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom