<p>The Government has no specific plans to make oral contraceptive pills available without a prescription. Any applications to reclassify particular products from prescription only to non-prescription supply would need to be initiated by the manufacturer and would then be considered in accordance with its usual procedures by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.</p><p>In accordance with its usual procedures the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approved an application from Pfizer to reclassify the product Viagra Connect (sildenafil 50mg) from a prescription only medicine to a pharmacy medicine. After full assessment of the available evidence and having sought advice from the Commission on Human Medicines, the product was considered safe to be supplied from pharmacies without prescription.</p>