Around a million UK women are currently struggling to get hold of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A shortage, specific to the UK, of an oestrogen gel and other forms of HRT are causing some women to miss work in order to hunt for the drug.
Some women are even being forced out of work altogether, according to campaigners, while others have been forced to by the drugs on the black market. And the shortages have other knock-on effects to health and to the NHS, too.
So why is there a shortage, and what can we do about it? What even is HRT?
