The guidance focuses on helping disadvantaged young people under the age of 25, such as teenage parents, young people living in deprived areas, minority ethic groups and young offenders.
The draft recommendations include establishing collaborative "evidence-based" commissioning arrangements between primary care trusts to provide contraception and sexual health services for young people at convenient, accessible locations such as city centres, colleges and schools.
The guidance also recommends that doctors, nurses and pharmacists should, where possible, provide the full range of contraceptive methods.
Other proposals outlined in the guidance include:
Penny Barber, chief executive of Brook in Birmingham and a member of the NICE programme development group, said: "We know emergency contraception is more effective the sooner you use it after sex so it's crucial young women have it on hand in case they need it. Evidence demonstrates that making emergency contraception available in advance does not change the amount of sex young people have."
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