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[CLKD]

Tnx Emma   -    so how is each Surgery going to be encouraged by the British Menopause Society Vision to educate a specific healthcare professional?  Is this something that women should be asking and if told 'no', where do they go next?

Maybe ladies on here who would like to inform their Surgeries, could be sent paper details in the Post from the BMSV to hand to their Practice Nurses?

[Hurdity]

Thanks Emma.

One can find out what's going on through googling and looking at the websites of all the relevant organisations. No-one needs to be sent paper copies of anything these days – we just have to google. For example that paper that Emma refers to, of which Heather Currie is a co-author and was presented at this year's BMS conference,  was published in the British Menopause Society journal and comes up straight away.  We can all search stuff out for ourselves and print it off!

Anyone who wants to help from the bottom up by helping to educate their local practice as I suggested in my post on the other thread – can print off the NICE Guidelines (as several of us frequently suggest)  - as well as this vision and any detailed papers which give more specific information and recommendations.

In fact one of the best ways to stay up-to-date with what's going on menopause-wise apart from regularly visiting some of these websites - is through Twitter. You don't have to suddenly become a social media person if that's not your thing – but all you need to do is register an account and then start following relevant organisations.  Then you get all the notifications of  papers, conferences etc. This now seems to be the main medium of delivery of the latest information by most professional organisations. Best if you have a smart phone but not essential if you have the tabs open on your computer.

Anyway since we're on the subject I hunted down a few of the sources I use and a few more besides to help anyone for whom this is all a mystery! Here are  some papers and helpful links and you can see what communication is being done as well as what some of the recommendations are

Starting with.....The nitty gritty – ie the main summary recommendations ( all the evidence underpinning these recommendations are in a lengthy detailed document):

NICE  SUMMARY GUIDELINES ON MENOPAUSE
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng23/chapter/Recommendations

This section outlines what the challenges are and what steps are suggested to implement the guidelines and communication (from November 2015):
IMPLEMENTATION – GETTING STARTED
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng23/chapter/Menopause-implementation-getting-started
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053369117717207?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed

BRITISH MENOPAUSE SOCIETY
https://thebms.org.uk/
No need for me to link to different sections – it's all on there – what they are doing – just click on the links and read! There are factsheets, what they are doing, publications etc

WOMEN'S HEALTH CONCERN (patient arm of BMS)
https://www.womens-health-concern.org/events/
More fact sheets, telephone/e-mail advice details, events

ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS (RCOG)
Information hub on menopause – lots of info as with Menopause Matters.
https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/patients/menopause/

PRIMARY CARE WOMEN'S HEALTH FORUM
Organise training and webinars. Louise Newson has recently led one I think
http://www.pcwhf.co.uk/

BRITISH MENOPAUSE SOCIETY AND WOMEN'S HEALTH CONCERN 2016 RECOMMENDATIONS ON HRT IN MENOPAUSAL WOMEN (Hamoda et al)
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053369116680501

2016 IMS RECOMMENDATIONS ON WOMEN'S MIDLIFE HEALTH AND MENOPAUSE HORMONE THERAPY
Published in Climacteric, the journal of the International Menopause Society
http://www.imsociety.org/manage/images/pdf/4429e3dd302aac259ad68c3be7f60599.pdf

More links to other organisations from this website:
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/links.php

DR LOUISE NEWSON – GP and menopause expert helping to spread the word
An example of what one GP is doing – Louise Newson – has set up her own website, and gives advice on menopause, also available for consultation NHS and private ( Midlands). Tweets frequently with up to date info on everything menopause!
https://menopausedoctor.co.uk/

Just noticed she also has a page of info for health professionals (available to the public) which contains much more information and links to papers than I know about – I just put a couple of key documents above!
https://menopausedoctor.co.uk/healthcare-professionals/

Well I could go on – but that'll do for now. Tis a bit long this....

However -  do hope that some of you find some of this helpful and now I've done it I'll probably refer back to it again!!!

Hurdity x

[lesley998]

Nothing of any worth to contribute really.....but in 2011 my young male GP pooh poohed my tentative suggestion that my worsening depression coupled with sudden onset adhesive capsulitis and dry eyes were anything to do with meno. I was 50, how hard can it be to make the connections.   Shortly afterwards, I went for my three yearly smear and was swiftly diagnosed by the nurse practitioner as my joints were so sore I could hardly get on the examination table ..turned out her nursing thesis was on menopausal tendinitis /arthritis. Only then did I get fsh testing. I was and have since been made to feel like a neurotic hypochondriac time waster.


 

[Hurdity]

This is terrible Sweet Pea - that you are still being made to feel like this - and also now, since the NICE Guidelines it is no longer necessary to do FSH testing for women of your age - unless of course you've had hysterectomy or got a Mirena coil - in which case it's impossible to tell from your cycle.

Let's hope that as a result of all the initiatives that are happening - and especially through implementation of the BMS Vision for Menopause Care - this sort of attitude becomes a thing of the past

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

No-one needs to be sent paper copies of anything these days – we just have to google.. - I don't 'have to' nor I want to google anything!

If the Vision is going to work then it has to be sent to all Surgeries: on-line ain't enough, it is easy to ignore - I have this month's up-2-date news letter from our Surgery but only because I had to go for a check up.  There is no separate area about menopause on the web-site.

As for NICE Guide-lines, don't get me started