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Contraceptive services became free to patients of general practitioners in the British National Health Service on 1 July 1975. We report the numbers of patients advised in a practice of 6,612 patients during the first three-month period and found that in a sample of 211 women, just over half had received medical advice. The financial implications are discussed.
