Abortion

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Services

• Abortion notification forms for England and Wales

  Guidance and forms (HSA1, EMA1, HSA2 and HSA4) for recording information about abortions in England and Wales.

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Guidance and regulation

• Abortion statistics: protocol for the release of personal data
  • Guidance
  • 23 August 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care
• Clinics authorised to carry out abortions
  • Guidance
  • 2 November 2023
  • Department of Health and Social Care
• Abortion: procedures for approval of independent providers
  • Guidance
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department of Health and Social Care
• State of the North East 2020: reproductive health
  • Guidance
  • 25 March 2020
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England

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News and communications

• At home early medical abortions made permanent in England and Wales
  • 23 August 2022
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Press release
• England to return to pre-pandemic system for early abortions
  • 24 February 2022
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Press release
• Abortion: clarification of time limit
  • 28 March 2019
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Correspondence
• Abortion: further clarification of time limit
  • 28 March 2019
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Correspondence
• Abortion statistics, England & Wales: 2011
  • 29 May 2012
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Abortion statistics for England and Wales: 2022
  • 18 December 2024
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • National statistics
• Abortion statistics for England and Wales: 2021
  • 26 July 2024
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • National statistics
• Northern Ireland Termination of Pregnancy Statistics 2022 to 2023
  • 20 June 2024
  • Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• Complications from abortions in England, 2017 to 2021
  • 23 November 2023
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Official statistics
• Abortion statistics for England and Wales: January to June 2022
  • 24 August 2023
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Home use of both pills for early medical abortion
  • 10 March 2022
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 27 February 2021

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Provisional list of abortion clinics and hospitals in England and Wales, 2023
  • 15 November 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department of Health & Social Care
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities