UK pharmacists to offer alternatives to out of stock HRT products

Prescribing rules relaxed to tackle ongoing shortage after some women have travelled across the country to access medicines

Pharmacists will be allowed to offer alternative hormone replacement therapy products if the original prescription is out of stock, under new rules aimed at tackling the ongoing shortage.

The relaxing of normal prescribing rules, announced by the government's HRT supply taskforce, comes amid shortages of HRT products that have left some women travelling across the country to access medicines.