Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions
(asked on 23rd May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of allowing pharmacists to amend patient prescriptions when there is a supply shortage of hormone replacement therapy medications.
This question was answered on 9th June 2022
The Department has issued Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) which allow pharmacists to substitute a specified alternative hormone replacement therapy (HRT) product if the prescribed product is not available. There are currently 13 SSPs in place for five HRT medicines, to manage and mitigate medicine supply issues.