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Friday, February 13, 2009

GPs to Get Bonuses for Giving Teenagers Contraceptive Implants And Jabs Without Informing Parents

GPs will be paid bonuses for persuading teenagers to have long-lasting contraceptive implants and jabs without their parents' knowledge, it has emerged.

From next year, doctors are to receive the payments for encouraging young women to use long-acting methods of contraception rather than taking the Pill each day.

They will be pressed to tell those prescribed the morning-after pill that an injection or coil would be better to prevent pregnancies.

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