Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions
(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many female patients aged between 40 and 60 received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions were made to women of those ages in each of the last three years.
The following table shows the number of identified female patients aged 40 to 60 years old prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medication and the number of prescription items for HRT medication where a patient could be identified in each of the last three years.
| Number of identified patients | Number of prescription items for which a patient could be identified |
December 2018 to November 2019 | 661,990 | 2,181,328 |
December 2019 to November 2020 | 614,590 | 2,133,193 |
December 2020 to November 2021 | 782,664 | 2,678,094 |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority
Records of prescriptions written but not dispensed are not held centrally.