Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions
(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether HRT prepayment certificates will be available by April 2023.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 19th December 2022
A pre-payment certificate for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will be introduced from 1 April 2023. It will enable women to access as many National Health Service prescriptions for HRT medicines licensed for treatment of the menopause as required for an annual cost of two single item prescription charges.