Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC)
Updated 03/07/2024
Providing the Service
We have been working with Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS) who took over the Lincolnshire EHC service from Lincolnshire County Council as from 1st July 2024, to simplify and streamline the contract for provision. The service forms part of a contract awarded to LCHS to deliver integrated sexual health services across Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Borough Council which commenced on 01 April 2024.
LCHS are keen to increase the number of pharmacies where EHC can be accessed and encourage any pharmacies interested in delivering EHC to complete the expression of interest document below and forward to licb.lchscontracts@nhs.net. Alternatively, if there are queries in relation to this service please share to the same email and a member of their team will follow up with you. Full LCHS Service Requirements for the provision of Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) in Lincolnshire can also be found at the link below.
Expression of Interest_Pharmacy EHC Return Form July 2024
Training
Pharmacists providing the service must ensure that they have completed adequate training. Assessment of this is through a Declaration of Competence; you can find out more about the Declaration of Competence model at www.cppe.ac.uk/services/declaration-of-competence
Pharmacists must also ensure that they have up-to-date and appropriate safeguarding training in place.
Further details of the training and skills required can be found in the service documents and the PGD.
Please contact LCHS for up to date service documentation
Older Service Documents – May 2023
- Decision Tree v1.2 (May 2023)
- LCC EllaOne Guideline v2.0 (May 2023)
- Levonorgestrel-National-PGD-template-V2.0 (March-2023) – updated March 2023 (please note that a PGD is not required for ulipristal as this is not a Prescription Only Medicine)
- Record Form v1.2 (May 2023)
Service Documents –
These are older documents which can still be used to support service delivery.
- Pharmacy EC letter
- EC Qtr recording pharmacy
- Serious Incident Report
- EC Pharmacy Annual Review template V4
- EC Pharmacy Guidance Annual Review document for Regional Offices
- ED Primary Doc v2
- Safeguarding useful information
Claiming Payments
Payments will be made quarterly in arrears, based on the completion and submission of this claim form to Lincolnshire County Council by email (we suggest using your NHS mail account)
