A key objective is for women to forge a closer relationship with their general practitioners, nurses and other health professionals.
Patient survey
As a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, many menopause services have changed their service provision to either telephone or video consultations in order to offer alternatives to face to face appointments thereby helping to minimise patients’ hospital visits.
The British Menopause Society (BMS) would like to find out more about your experience of these appointments during this time and to assess your views on the virtual clinic appointments and whether you found them helpful.
Your views are important to us and we would be grateful if you would take a few minutes to complete this confidential survey.
We will use the information from this survey to assess the acceptability of remote consultations and to guide BMS members on how to further improve their clinical service during the time of this pandemic.
Survey closes: end January 2021
Quick links to online help and advice
- WHC factsheets and other helpful resources: health topics, regularly reviewed and updated.
- FAQs: answers from our specialist nurses and medical advisory panel.
- : sources of help offered by other health organisations.
- WHC bookshelf: publications for the general public and for health professionals.
Menopause: Giving you confidence for understanding and action
We have prepared a series of factsheets on menopause and related issues, following the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) menopause guidelines from November 2015. These factsheets have been reviewed by the medical advisory council of the British Menopause Society.
New: Induced menopause in women with endometriosis, Migraine and HRT and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Menopausal Symptoms
NICE menopause guideline for women patients
The November 2015 Menopause Guideline by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been prepared for healthcare professionals but there is also a simplified version on their website for women patients: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng23/informationforpublic
Confidential advice by telephone or email
Please note that only the Women’s Health Concern email advisory service is operating at the moment.
The telephone advisory service is currently suspended. The nurses who help us to provide the service have been called upon to support their colleagues as part of the NHS response to COVID-19.
We will regularly monitor and assess the situation and the full advisory service will be reinstated as soon as possible.
Forthcoming meetings
- Principles & Practice of Menopause Care (PPMC) virtual theory course Health professionals only
- 19 February 2021 - 5 March 2021
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Menopause Symptoms Health professionals only
- 5 March 2021 - 23 March 2021
- BMS Menopause Café – HRT practical prescribing workshop Health professionals only
- 18 March 2021 - 31 March 2021
- Principles & Practice of Menopause Care (PPMC) virtual theory course Health professionals only
- 16 April 2021 - 29 April 2021
- Principles & Practice of Menopause Care (PPMC) virtual theory course Health professionals only
- 14 May 2021 - 28 May 2021
- Principles & Practice of Menopause Care (PPMC) virtual theory course Health professionals only
- 11 June 2021 - 24 June 2021
- BMS 30th Annual Scientific Conference Health professionals only
- 1 July 2021 - 2 July 2021
- BMS Virtual Women’s Health Meeting – with Dr Heather Currie Health professionals only
- 10 September 2021 - 24 September 2021
- BMS Virtual Women’s Health Meeting – with Mr Haitham Hamoda Health professionals only
- 26 October 2021 - 8 November 2021
Women’s Health Concern is greatly indebted to the late Miss Elizabeth Stalley whose bequest made possible the complete re-design and revision of this charity website in December 2007. Since then several benefactors, some preferring to be anonymous, have made donations. These are enabling us to continue to enhance the website and to provide funding towards our key outreach objectives.The trustees of the British Menopause Society and Women’s Health Concern thank you all, especially those who have supported us having suffered loss of close family. In June 2020 we received a bequest in memory of Marie Ayres-Regan. Her husband David recognised that donations to help us through the coronavirus pandemic would be greatly welcomed.
Our charity receives no statutory funding, so we continue to depend on the generosity of all those who value our services.
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