Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to increase the availability of hormone replacement therapy implants in NHS hospitals.

The services provided are a matter for the National Health Service locally. Under the NHS Constitution, patients in England have a right to medicines and treatments that have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for use in the NHS, if a prescriber discusses treatment options with the patient and says that they are clinically appropriate for them. There are also arrangements in place for additional, local decision making in the absence of a relevant NICE recommendation.