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Hormone Replacement Therapy

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 149441, tabled on 29 March 2022

Question

Matt Vickers
Conservative
Stockton South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost of hormone replacement therapy for women.

Answer

Maria Caulfield
Conservative
Lewes
Commons

Answered on

13 April 2022

We remain committed to reducing the cost of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescriptions for those women who are not already exempt from prescription charges.

We will achieve this through an annual prescription prepayment certificate for HRT, which is due to be implemented from April 2023. This certificate will allow individuals to access the annual licensed HRT treatments they require for the cost of two single prescription items at £18.70.

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