In October 2022, we revealed a postcode lottery in terms of the amount of money NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) spend per woman aged 45-60 on common hormone replacement therapy (HRT) treatments.
Analysis of NHS prescription data shows some local health boards spent three times the amount per woman on Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT) than others.
Experts said the treatment options offered by some local health boards were "very limited".
The government said women's health was at the top of its agenda.
Methodology
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The 大象传媒's Shared Data Unit analysed how much Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) spent on common HRT treatments between April 2021 and June 2022.
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We also analysed British Menopauyse Society data on NHS and private menopause clinic locations in the UK. We scraped this data with permission from the BMS's 'find a specialist' .
What we found
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Analysis showed the highest rate of spending was West Suffolk where 拢14.10 was spent per woman aged 45 to 60. That compared to 拢5.56 spent in Leicester City.
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And further analysis of British Menopause Society data showed 59% of Clinical Commissioning Group areas (CCGs) in England had no NHS clinics, including all of Devon and Cornwall and large areas in the North. The data also showed almost a third of existing NHS clinics were either in London or Surrey.
Get the data
We produced and with analysis of NHS Enland prescription data and data on menopause clinic loacations throughout the UK.
We also produced allowing our regional news partners to easily access information for their local area.
Partner usage
The Shared Data Unit makes data journalism available to the wider news industry as part of the 大象传媒 Local News Partnership. Stories written by partners based on this research included:
- National World: ) 18 October 2022
- Rochdale Online: *18 October 2022
- Warrington Guardian: *22 October 2022
- Spalding Today: *22 October 2022
- Yorkshire Evening Post: *20 October 2022
- Southern Daily Echo: *19 October 2022
- Worcester News: *20 October 2022
- Suffolk News: *18 October 2022
- The Stray Ferret: *18 October 2022
- Malvern Gazette: *20 October 2022
- Ledbury reporter: *20 October 2022
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