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Hormone Replacement Therapy

Commons · Question 8236 · Tabled 9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review the requirement for three miscarriages to have taken place before the drug progesterone can be administered.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 17 Oct 2024

The new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance states that women bleeding in early pregnancy after one miscarriage should be offered progesterone. The guidance was updated in 2021, based on the progesterone in early pregnancy bleeding ...