“NHS-licensed healthcare platform” Evaro has partnered with period tracking app Clue to provide “seamless access to NHS-funded contraception directly through Clue’s app”.
Users in the UK can now complete a “brief online consultation” on the app and choose from a range of contraception options through Evaro’s “embedded pharmacy infrastructure”, Clue revealed this week (October 27).
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Evaro’s “certified clinicians” will then review and approve these prescriptions before they are dispensed from its “GPhC-registered pharmacy”, it said.
And it added that the medication is “delivered discreetly” and free of charge to customers the next day.
Evaro previously partnered with adult toy and lingerie business Lovehoney to offer a “fully online NHS-funded contraception service free of charge” as well as erectile dysfunction (ED) and urinary tract infection (UTI) medicines.
“Innovative and convenient”
According to Clue, this partnership marks the “first time a major cycle-tracking platform has integrated prescription healthcare services in the UK”.
The service offers a “remote alternative to existing digital NHS services that are limited to specific postcodes” and provides users with “digital aftercare access and re-ordering reminders”, it added.
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Clue chief executive Rhiannon White said that the platform is “delighted to be rolling out this innovative and convenient solution that will provide women with better access to prescription medication and greater agency over their wellbeing”.
And Evaro chief executive and co-founder Dr Thuria Wenbar said that the partnership represents a “banking moment for healthcare”.
“Just as we’d never queue at a bank to transfer £20 today, women shouldn’t wait two months for contraception,” she argued, adding that she hopes women can “access reproductive healthcare...with the level of convenience that online banking provides”.
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It comes as women across England can access the morning-after pill free of charge in pharmacies from today (October 29).
This expansion of the pharmacy contraception service (PCS) was first announced by the government in March as part of the 2025/26 funding deal and aims to end the “postcode lottery women face in accessing the medicine”.
National Pharmacy Association (NPA) vice chair Sukhi Basra today welcomed a visit from pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock at her London pharmacy to mark the occasion.
