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More than 37,000 hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pre-payment certificates (PPC) have been purchased following the certificate’s launch on April 1, causing the website to crash, the government has said.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DH) today (April 4) announced that “over 37,700 certificates for HRT have been purchased already, both via the online website and in-person in pharmacies, following the launch”.
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