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Hormone Replacement Therapy

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 70329, tabled on 5 November 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2021 to Questions 65535 and 65536 on Hormone Replacement Therapy, what the nature of the issues was affecting the supplies of some HRT drugs and products.

Answered on

15 November 2021

Supply issues that have affected the availability of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) preparations include manufacturing issues, regulatory issues, problems accessing the raw pharmaceutical ingredient as well as commercial decisions made by some companies to divest these products.

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