Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 5 February 2025Answered: 11 February 2025
Asked by
Lee Pitcher
Labour — Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
Karin Smyth
I entirely appreciate the frustration and distress caused by medical supply shortages. We are working intensively with industry to resolve the HRT supply issues, and the problems with the supply of Estradot are expected to be resolved by the end of the month. Meanwhile, we have issued a serious shortage protocol to allow community pharmacists to supply alternative brands of the same medicine, and those remain available.