This annual report primarily presents information on NHS community contraceptive clinics (family planning clinics and clinics run by voluntary organisations such as Brook Advisory Centres). This has been collected since 1988/89 through the KT31 return.
Information on NHS community contraceptive clinics excludes services provided in out-patient clinics and those provided by General Practitioners. However, limited data is presented for out-patient clinics sourced from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), prescription data from the Prescribing team at the HSCIC, and survey data from ‘Contraception and Sexual Health 2008/09’, a report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of the HSCIC.