Pharmacies to provide free HRT for women from 1 June

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Free HRT to be available from 1 June as health minister and pharmacists break impasse

Women will be able to get HRT to relieve symptoms of menopause for free at participating pharmacies.

Free HRT to be available from June after agreement reached with pharmacies

The scheme was supposed to come into effect from January 1, 2025 but issues arose with pharmacies and their unions regarding who would pay the dispensing costs

Pharmacies to provide free HRT for women from 1 June

Pharmacies will start providing free hormone replacement therapy for women from 1 June after an agreement with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.

Free HRT widely available in pharmacies from June after agreement reached with Department of Health

Increased one-off grant offered to pharmacists after union talks with department

Agreement on HRT must include reimbursement

It is hugely welcome that a deal to roll out free HRT has finally been agreed – but the Minister must reimburse women who have spent hundreds of euro on HRT already this year, according to Social Democrats TD Pádraig Rice Deputy Rice, who’s the party’s health spokesperson, said: “A firm commitment was given, by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, that free HRT would be rolled out for women from January this year. That commitment was breached. “Instead, t…