📈Rising demand for the drugs has seen monthly prescriptions more than double compared to five years ago
GPs are rationing HRT to just one month’s supply for women to “take pressure off” the system, it has emerged, despite a change in the law allowing doctors to prescribe a year’s worth upfront.
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