Would you be happy buying HRT over the counter?

A medicine for menopausal women is to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the UK.

Boots said that it is the first to sell a hormone replacement therapy over the counter, as well as selling online.

The high street chain will be offering Gina 10 microgram vaginal tablets for £29.99 for 24 tablets.

The drug, which was reclassified from a prescription-only medicine to a pharmacy medicine by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) earlier this year, treats one of the symptoms of menopause, vaginal atrophy.

It will be available for women aged 50 and over who have not had a period in at least a year.

Before purchasing the treatment, women will have a consultation with a pharmacist to ensure it is the right medicine for them.

Those buying online will have an online consultation.

Boots is launching the product on Thursday and rolling it out to all stores by the end of October.

Do you believe it is a good idea to make HRT more readily available in this way? Or are you unsure and think that women should have a consultation with their GP rather than a pharmacist before buying over-the-counter HRT?