Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing free prescriptions for women who use hormone replacement therapy to treat premature menopause.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th September 2020

The Government has made no such assessment. There are no current plans to change the list of treatments that are exempt from prescription charge.

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