Pill for sale online without consultation

A BRITISH-based online medical service is offering the contraceptive pill to Irish women without a face- to-face consultation with a doctor.

Women do have to supply their medical history to the DrThom website before getting a private prescription from the website’s doctors and must be over 18.

The service, launched yesterday, intends to prescribe and dispatch medicines to women throughout Ireland, where appropriate. It is offering three months’ supply for about €38.