Free HRT treatments to start on June 1 following six-month delay

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 'I have written to all community pharmacies today asking that they support and facilitate the women in their communities to access State-funded HRT products and medicines.' Picture: Moya Nolan

State-funded HRT will begin for women on June 1 and the Government will cover the dispensing fee, health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has announced.

The funded hormone replacement therapy was announced as part of last October’s budget and was initially promised for January 1.