HC Deb 13 January 1992 vol 201 cc526-7W
Mr. Michael

To ask the Secretary of State for health if he will list preparations currently in use in hormone replacement treatment in which two or more drugs are currently packaged as one item together with the proportion of prescriptions(a) in England and (b) in each district health authority or family practitioner committee area which specified (i) both or all the constituent items and (ii) only one of the constituent items in each of the past five years.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The preparations currently used in hormone replacement treatment in which two or more drugs are packaged as one item are given in the table:

  • Cyclo-Progynova
  • Estrapak 50
  • Trisequens
  • Trisequens Forte
  • Prempak-C
  • Nuvelle
  • Syntex Menophasc

Information on the proportion of prescriptions on which different numbers of ingredients are listed is not available.