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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory and Denis Campbell

Sajid Javid urged to relax law as women forced to travel miles to find HRT

HRT tablets
There have been acute shortages of some hormone replacement therapy products in England. Photograph: Alamy

Sajid Javid is being urged to change the law to let pharmacists alter prescriptions during medicine shortages, as it emerged that some women are travelling hundreds of miles to seek hormone replacement therapy products.

There have been acute shortages of some HRT products, which are used by about 1 million women in the UK to treat symptoms of the menopause.

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