Changes Planned in Wales to Allow Home Use of Misoprostol

18 April 2018

BASCP is delighted at the news that the Welsh Government intends following suit with Scotland to allow women to use misoprostol at home for early medical abortion.

Health Secretary Vaughan Gething made the announcement yesterday in the Senedd (National Assembly for Wales). Welsh clinicians are strongly behind the move.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-43803251

The overwhelming logical argument and evidence in favour of this move was made known to the Chief Medical Officer during the course of the Welsh Sexual Health Strategy Review in Autumn 2017. Thereafter, lead clinicians in Wales worked with BBC researcher Kate McDonald to collectively lobby the Health Secretary and Assembly Members to raise awareness of the idea. Dr Amanda Davies, Lead Clinician in Swansea, was interviewed on Wales Live last month.

Louise Massey, Consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, Gwent, Wales and BSACP’s Regional Representative for Wales