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The government is stepping up efforts to resolve supply issues affecting hormone replacement therapy products. there s a shortage of a gel used by women to help with menopause symptoms. the health secretary has appointed the director general of the vaccine taskforce, madelaine mcternan to take charge. demand for hrt products in the uk has been increasing over the last few years due to greater menopause awareness and gp confidence in prescribing treatments. our health correspondent catherine burns says that the current issue is due to supply and demand and that the new health tsar has a lot to deal with. madeline mcternan is the lady who is doing this. she is the head of the task force. in some ways this is a very similarjob to what she has, and in some ways it is different. what she has got to do now is look at festival the short term issue, with these to gel and the knock on effects, but actually there are bigger issues with this market. there is a rising demand right now.
The government has issued Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) to limit dispensing to 3 months’ supply for three HRT products to ensure continued access