Boots criticised over failure to cut price of morning-after pill

Pharmacy chain has reduced cost in fewer than 3% of stores despite promising to lower price nationwide after outcry

Five months after Boots bowed to public pressure and promised to reduce the price of emergency contraception, it has made good on its promise in fewer than 3% of its stores.

After weeks of controversy last summer over its stance on the price of its generic brand of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC), levonorgestrel – during which the pharmacy chain said it could not reduce the cost in case it encouraged women to have unprotected sex – Boots relented and said the price would drop from £26.75 to £15.99 from October.

It's Boxing Day! Don't forget - if you need emergency contraception today, you can buy it in plenty of shops for £15 or less. Still, best give Boots a miss. Use the spare cash in the sales.

Continue reading... December 27, 2017 at 10:20PM