Uptake, user demographics and weekday of attendance of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services
| Characteristics | Service contacts | Type of service | |||||||
| Emergency contraception | Oral contraception | Contraceptive injection | Condoms | STI kit | Chlamydia treatment | ||||
| Total | Provided directly (without pre-ordering) | Pre-ordered and collected | |||||||
| Total, n (% by row) | 60 498* (100.0) | 30 473 (50.4) | 3247 (5.4) | 359 (0.6) | 19 998 (33.1) | 5830 (9.6) | 3324 (57.0) | 2506 (43) | 591 (1.0) |
| Gender, n (% by column) | |||||||||
| Females | 51 780 (85.6) | 30 464 (100) | 3245 (99.9) | 359 (100.0) | 13 286 (66.4) | 4044 (69.4) | 2450 (60.6) | 1594 (39.4) | 382 (64.6) |
| Males | 8597 (14.2) | – | – | – | 6610 (33.1) | 1781 (30.5) | 869 (48.8) | 912 (51.2) | 206 (34.9) |
| Transgender | 15 (0.0) | 2 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | – | 10 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | – | 1 (0.2) |
| Unknown | 106 (0.2) | 7 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | – | 92 (0.5) | 4 (0.1) | 4 (100.0) | – | 2 (0.3) |
| Ethnicity, n (% by column) | |||||||||
| White/White British | 23 742† (43.4) | 12 383 (40.6) | 1918 (59.1) | 159 (44.3) | 9003 (45.0) | NA | NA | NA | 279 (47.2) |
| Asian/Asian British | 12 603† (23.1) | 7478 (24.5) | 450 (13.9) | 33 (9.2) | 4612 (23.1) | NA | NA | NA | 30 (5.1) |
| Black/Black British | 8278† (15.1) | 4964 (16.3) | 427 (13.2) | 67 (18.7) | 2715 (13.6) | NA | NA | NA | 105 (17.8) |
| Mixed/Multiple Ethnic groups | 3490† (6.4) | 2133 (7.0) | 173 (5.3) | 18 (5.0) | 1109 (5.5) | NA | NA | NA | 57 (9.6) |
| Other Ethnic groups | 1078† (2.0%) | 571 (1.9) | 50 (1.5) | 19 (5.3) | 429 (2.1) | NA | NA | NA | 9 (1.5) |
| Unknown | 5477† (10.0) | 2944 (9.7) | 229 (7.1) | 63 (17.5) | 2130 (10.7) | NA | NA | NA | 111 (18.8) |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| Range (min–max) | 13–86 | 13–59 | 13–56 | 16–49 | 13–86 | 16–78 | 16–78 | 16–72 | 16–54 |
| Median (IQR) | 24 (20–30) | 25 (20–29) | 24 (20–30) | 25 (21–31) | 24 (20–33) | 22 (20–277) | 21 (20–25) | 24 (21–30) | 23 (20–27) |
| Age groups, n (% by column) | |||||||||
| 13–15 | 582 (1.0) | 267 (0.9) | 19 (0.6) | - | 296 (1.5) | – | – | – | – |
| 16–19 | 11 765 (19.4) | 6223 (20.4) | 542 (16.7) | 43 (12.0) | 3707 (18.5) | 1130 (19.4) | 735 (22.1) | 395 (15.8) | 120 (20.3) |
| 20–24 | 20 834 (34.4) | 10 740 (35.2) | 1156 (35.6) | 117 (32.6) | 6025 (30.1) | 2535 (43.5) | 1638 (49.3) | 897 (35.8) | 261 (44.2) |
| 25–29 | 11 061 (18.3) | 6209 (20.4) | 645 (19.9) | 85 (23.7) | 2961 (14.8) | 1034 (17.7) | 467 (14.0) | 567 (22.6) | 127 (21.5) |
| 30–39 | 11 786 (19.5) | 5715 (18.8) | 608 (18.7) | 84 (23.4) | 4550 (22.8) | 767 (13.2) | 334 (10.0) | 433 (17.3) | 62 (10.5) |
| 40+ | 4470 (7.4) | 1319 (4.3) | 277 (8.5) | 30 (8.4) | 2459 (12.3) | 364 (6.2) | 150 (4.5) | 214 (8.5) | 21 (3.6) |
| Day of week accessed, n (% by column) | |||||||||
| Monday | 12 657 (20.9) | 6894 (22.6) | 599 (18.4) | 46 (12.8) | 3935 (19.7) | 1102 (18.9) | 645 (19.4) | 457 (18.2) | 81 (13.7) |
| Tuesday | 10 249 (16.9) | 4952 (16.3) | 588 (18.1) | 63 (17.5) | 3515 (17.6) | 1049 (18.0) | 602 (18.1) | 447 (17.8) | 82 (13.9) |
| Wednesday | 8999 (14.9) | 4223 (13.9) | 505 (15.6) | 73 (20.3) | 3268 (16.3) | 828 (14.2) | 449 (13.5) | 379 (15.1) | 102 (17.3) |
| Thursday | 8970 (14.8) | 4043 (13.3) | 586 (18.0) | 71 (19.8) | 3325 (16.6) | 844 (14.5) | 445 (13.4) | 399 (15.9) | 101 (17.1) |
| Friday | 9235 (15.3) | 4120 (13.5) | 591 (18.2) | 63 (17.5) | 3384 (16.9) | 968 (16.6) | 639 (19.2) | 329 (13.1) | 109 (18.4) |
| Saturday | 7375 (12.2) | 4206 (13.8) | 293 (9.0) | 37 (10.3) | 2021 (10.1) | 719 (12.3) | 440 (13.2) | 279 (11.1) | 99 (16.8) |
| Sunday | 3013 (5.0) | 2035 (6.7) | 85 (2.6) | 6 (1.7) | 550 (2.8) | 320 (5.5) | 104 (3.1) | 216 (8.6) | 17 (2.9) |
*Only 75 requests (0.1%, 75/60 573) were excluded from the analysis because they did not meet the pharmacy service eligibility criteria.
†Total number of (%) of service requests of all services except STI self-sampling kits.
NA, not available.