Pharmacists' views on California's new law for pharmacy access to contraception: a qualitative study

The feasibility of contraceptive injections at the community pharmacy

“…The State of California legislature recently expanded the ability of pharmacists to give "self-administered hormonal contraception" (California State Legislature Assembly, 2013). Although the evidence is that knowledge of this service spread slowly, with few pharmacists aware of it the following year (Richards et al, 2015), two years later enthusiasm seems high among pharmacists, with 71% of 257 pharmacists reporting they would be likely to expand access to hormonal contraception under the new legislature (Vu et al, 2015), and over 65% of student pharmacists in California feeling that they had been adequately educated to offer hormonal contraception (Rafie and El-Ibiary, 2014). Following the California legislation (and similar legislation in Oregon), pharmacists and physicians in Colorado were asked about OTC ('over the counter') access to progestogen-only contraception.…”