The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Last October, as part of Budget 2025, the Irish Government announced that Hormone Replacement Therapy would be free to all women experiencing symptoms of menopause. The scheme was due to come into effect on the 1st of January this year.
However, nearly two weeks after the planned launch date, the scheme is not yet operating, and no new date has been provided for implementation, leaving thousands of women still paying for their treatment. “First of all, there was no stakeholder engagement. So that means that the first that I, as a community pharmacist, heard about this free HRT scheme was the same day that you or any of your listeners did,” she tells podcast presenter Róisín Ingle.
As a result of this lack of planning and engagement with stakeholders, Mitchell, who is also the host of the Wonder Care podcast, says the delay was inevitable, adding that there is “no IT infrastructure being proposed or considered for how this would roll out in community pharmacy.”
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