Exclusive: pharmacists say they should be allowed more easily to dispense substitute medicines as shortages take toll in England
Sajid Javid is being urged to change the law to let pharmacists alter prescriptions during medicine shortages, as it emerged that some women are travelling hundreds of miles to seek hormone replacement therapy products.
There have been acute shortages of some HRT products, which are used by about 1 million women in the UK to treat symptoms of the menopause.
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