Guidelines say everyone should be offered anaesthetic for coil fittings but only two in three patients were last year, new

From the pill to the implant, long-acting contraception has always been a female responsibility. But with the first-ever trial of

In April 2015, 27-year-old Hanna McGrath, who was 23 at the time, was working as a nurse on the Acute Spinal Cord Injury in Sheffield when she lost use of her left hand and arm after taking the Rigevidon pill.

It has been over half a century since the contraceptive pill was first made available on the NHS.