Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review the requirement for three miscarriages to have taken place before the drug progesterone can be administered.

The new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance states that women bleeding in early pregnancy after one miscarriage should be offered progesterone. The guidance was updated in 2021, based on the progesterone in early pregnancy bleeding trial, and is available at the following link, in section 1.5.2:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng126/chapter/Recommendations#management-of-miscarriage