Between 2012/2013 and 2016/2017, the health board set aside £59,678 for the operation of the “C-Card” scheme.

The service allows young people to register to receive free condoms.

Figures gathered as part of a Freedom of Information request show that NHS Tayside spent £12,545 running the service between 2016 and 2017.

Reported by The Courrier. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.