{"id":6229,"date":"2019-11-29T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:34:23","slug":"discussion-on-hrt-on-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Diane joins Ruth and Eamonn to discuss HRT shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Morning-29-Nov-2019-grab-hub-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6261\" src=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Morning-29-Nov-2019-grab-hub-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Morning-29-Nov-2019-grab-hub-2.jpg 890w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Morning-29-Nov-2019-grab-hub-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Morning-29-Nov-2019-grab-hub-2-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Di joined hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on the sofa of ITV&#8217;s This Morning to discuss the recent problem of HRT shortages. With her (third from left) is Emma Chittenden, a member of our private Facebook network, who gave some insights into the problems she has experienced since the drug shortage began last year.<\/p>\n<p>The interview can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uc8lM1O5OjI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A great piece of investigative journalism into the causes of the shortage can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/members.tortoisemedia.com\/2019\/11\/28\/the-great-hrt-scandal\/content.html?sig=Z7V8nuuP3aHGHU7BUVMJcGeYzW1L2GWk9SkQsqiAZZ0&amp;fbclid=IwAR2IPBmj6tBg8FAd5TtqjVK7lVhWo2kEGKb_S7mhf00rn_walYV7Q8RnsxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Emma Hartley has discovered that a few months before shortages started to bite in 2018, the UK government had pegged prices at a lower level &#8211; so low the pharmaceutical companies involved struggled to make a profit and preferred to sell them elsewhere. That explains why the UK seems to have been so badly affected.<\/p>\n<p>Other potential causes of the problem &#8211; Brexit and supply chain issues in China &#8211; do not answer all the questions about a situation in which the UK has been much worse hit than Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anne-Henderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6265\" src=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anne-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anne-Henderson.jpg 225w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anne-Henderson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anne-Henderson-174x174.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>The article quotes Dr Anne Henderson, a Harley Street gynaecologist and menopause specialist: \u201cThe HRT shortages have had a devastating impact on my patients, some of whom have completely run out of medication resulting in adverse side-effects which are not straightforward to rectify. I\u2019m concerned about the absolute lack of transparency from the Department of Health and Social Care and pharmaceutical companies involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There appears to have been an institutional failure to care about the HRT shortages&#8221;, she said, asking &#8220;who, if anyone, in the government takes responsibility for women\u2019s health. I have repeatedly tried to contact the relevant team at the health ministry and the various drug companies but, with the exception of Novartis, I have not had any useful feedback. I think the current situation is quite disgraceful and that the millions of women involved have not been properly considered either by the DHSC or the drug companies.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/members.tortoisemedia.com\/2019\/11\/28\/the-great-hrt-scandal\/content.html?sig=Z7V8nuuP3aHGHU7BUVMJcGeYzW1L2GWk9SkQsqiAZZ0&amp;fbclid=IwAR2IPBmj6tBg8FAd5TtqjVK7lVhWo2kEGKb_S7mhf00rn_walYV7Q8RnsxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Di joined hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on the sofa of ITV&#8217;s This Morning to discuss the recent problem of HRT shortages. With her (third from left) is Emma Chittenden, a member of our private Facebook network, who gave some insights into the problems she has experienced since the drug shortage began last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=6229\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Diane joins Ruth and Eamonn to discuss HRT shortages<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}