Menopause: Medical Treatments

(asked on 2nd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide patients access to (a) hormone replacement therapy and (b) other innovative treatments for the menopause.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st March 2022

The menopause will be a priority within the forthcoming Women’s Health Strategy. We are working with the National Health Service and the UK Menopause Taskforce on improving access to hormone replacement therapy. This includes reviewing implementation options for reducing the cost of NHS prescriptions. The Life Sciences Vision sets out the aim of establishing the United Kingdom as a centre for the development, trialling and adoption of innovative new medicines. This includes the role of the NHS as a testbed for innovative treatments, creating new commercial partnerships with industry and a culture of innovation.

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