Can I still get a prescription for GnRHa blockers?
Non-UK prescribers are perfectly able to prescribe for you, and you can use that prescription with a chemist that's outside of the UK (and therefore not held under the UK government's puberty blocker ban). Many parents opt to receive a private paper prescription and take it abroad to have it dispensed.
Prescriptions can be dispensed in the UK if the person named on the prescription has a date of birth over 18.
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