Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy prescriptions in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions for that treatment were made in each of the last three years.
The information is not collected in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of patients for whom a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medication has been dispensed and the number of prescription items for HRT medication in the last three years.
| Number of identified patients | Total number of prescription items, including those for which no patient could be identified |
December 2018 to November 2019 | 1,145,262 | 3,923,194 |
December 2019 to November 2020 | 1,076,038 | 3,866,793 |
December 2020 to November 2021 | 1,284,488 | 4,542,567 |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority
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