Hormone Replacement Therapy: Shortages

(asked on 23rd September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for how long she plans to keep the serious shortage protocols for hormone replacement therapy medicines in place.


Answered by
Caroline Johnson Portrait
Caroline Johnson
This question was answered on 17th October 2022

The Department monitors the market and works with suppliers, which enables serious shortage protocols (SSPs) to be introduced, withdrawn, amended or extended to take account of changes in the supply situation. There are currently 14 SSPs in place to manage and mitigate medicine supply issues, which ensures that hormone replacement therapy products continue to be available.

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