{"id":55,"date":"2024-05-16T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/nhs-borders\/free-condom-service\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:23:35","slug":"free-condom-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/pages\/free-condom-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Condoms Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Free Condoms Service (FCS) is a public health intervention contributing to the key outcomes of reducing the transmission of HIV and STIs, and reducing unintended pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a universal service available to individuals aged over 13 years.&nbsp; The service is free to the public and has no cost for the condom distribution outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pharmacies play a key role in&nbsp;increasing&nbsp;the availability of free condoms,&nbsp;removing&nbsp;barriers to access&nbsp;and normalising&nbsp;condom use.&nbsp;&nbsp;The service also compliments other Sexual Health and Harm Reduction services, such as EHC and IEP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information regarding the service, products and how to use condoms can be found on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freecondoms.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandyford NHSGGC Free Condoms Service<\/a>&nbsp;website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responsible Person: Trish Cawley<br>Last Updated: 29\/05\/25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">The Free Condoms Service (FCS) is a public health intervention contributing to the key outcomes of reducing the transmission of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/1745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-ggc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}