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Speaker 1: Good news for me and appausal women who've been struggling

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Speaker 1: everybody else around them who've been struggling with the shortage

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Speaker 1: of HRT petches. Far Mech has today announced it's going

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Speaker 1: to change the funded brand for the patches because of

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Speaker 1: the shortage issues that we've had. Doctor Linda dere is

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Speaker 1: the clinical director of Mino doctor and with us now Linda, Hello, Hello, Hey.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like good news, is it.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of a mixture of good and maybe bad

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Speaker 2: because they what they're going to do is basically fund

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Speaker 2: only one brand of patch, which is called my Lamb.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately some women don't get on with my Land.

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Speaker 2: So for the women who don't get on with my

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Speaker 2: Land that this is going to make them feel a

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Speaker 2: little bit uneasy and a bit anxious. But on the

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Speaker 2: positive side, there are other options for those those women,

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Speaker 2: but it means they might have to then do a

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Speaker 2: bit of work before their particular brand patch is no

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Speaker 2: longer funded as of first December next year.

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Speaker 1: Why is it that we were funding only one brand?

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Speaker 1: I mean that seems like that wasn't a really smart idea,

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Speaker 1: was it.

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Speaker 2: Oh? No, we weren't. So before we were funding several brands.

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Speaker 2: So this is now restricting funding to one brand only

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Speaker 2: because that particular brand has come back and said we

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Speaker 2: can guarantee supply because one of the big problems with

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Speaker 2: Eastern patches has been trying to get hold of any

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Speaker 2: So what they are doing is choosing a brand that

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Speaker 2: won't run out on us. But the downside is women

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Speaker 2: don't have as much options for patches now. The good

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Speaker 2: news there though, is there are other options apart from Patches,

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Speaker 2: such as funded gel, which most women who get on

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Speaker 2: with other non miland brands will get on with Gel fine,

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Speaker 2: but it means they have to start probably thinking about

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Speaker 2: that transition. Is they're in that group of women that

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Speaker 2: my land doesn't agree with them.

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Speaker 1: Right, Linda, thank you appreciate your time, doctor Linda Dea,

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Speaker 1: clinical director of me No Doctor. For more from Hither

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