Women STILL struggling to get hold of HRT medication, forcing them to share as ... trends now
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Women are still struggling to get a hold of HRT medication a year after shortages crippled the supply chain.
At the start of 2022, women suffering from symptoms of the menopause were meeting in car parks and visiting dozens of different pharmacies to obtain any available treatment.
The Government set up an HRT taskforce to ensure a steady supply, and announced a Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP) allowing pharmacists to substitute treatments without a woman returning to her GP.
But it has emerged sufferers are still resorting to sharing medication and waiting months for prescriptions to be fulfilled. And some pharmacies are once again telling patients that they do not have enough HRT to meet demand.
The country's largest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, sent a note to patients this week saying it was struggling to fulfil all prescriptions of Utrogestan, a form of progesterone that the majority of women on HRT take
