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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

UK pharmacists to offer alternatives to out of stock HRT products

HRT Hormone replacement therapy tablets in a daily dispenser plastic container.
Under the Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) pharmacists will be able to offer patients another product to relieve their symptoms if their normal HRT is out of stock. Photograph: Realimage/Alamy

Pharmacists will be allowed to offer alternative hormone replacement therapy products if the original prescription is out of stock, under new rules aimed at tackling the ongoing shortage.

The relaxing of normal prescribing rules, announced by the government’s HRT supply taskforce, comes amid shortages of HRT products that have left some women travelling across the country to access medicines.

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