Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 15th March 2022

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

Notes:

  1. Data on items prescribed but not dispensed is not collected centrally.
  2. It should be noted that when interpreting the patient counts, some patients could appear in results for multiple years. Therefore, the patient numbers cannot be combined and reported at any other level than as provided in the dataset.

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