Dr Louise Newson and colleagues are outstanding doctors. Full stop. And care about women, when the NHS has abandoned them.
Now (so called) ‘academics’, naysayers and the massed forces of the self-appointed British Menopause Society (BMS), Royal ‘College’ of Obstetrics and Gynaecology are trying to shut her clinics down, using the CQC as a weapon.
This is pretty rich as it is precisely they that oversee maternity services in the UK, which Wes Streeting thinks are appalling. He said he is ‘kept awake at night’ by mothers’ safety in childbirth in the UK.
They are digging out a minority of women who are genuinely ill (this is why they have been to her clinics) but not had a great response to treatment. You know, that happens in medicine. Not everyone gets better.
They need to be put up against the 100,000s of women in the the UK (and worldwide) where Louise and team have given them their lives back.
The reason Louise and her team – friends of MyHSN – exist is that the NHS in general, has little interest in women, womens’ problems and especially the menopause.
Whereas Louise and team care passionately about those millions of hidden, a little overweight, greying middle-aged women with menopause symptoms (they all look the same don’t they? Shuffling around the supermarket getting in your way. You know. I wonder if they are someone’s Mum?).
There are few NHS menopause clinics in the UK (about 35, many in Scotland). If there was a proper service, there wouldn’t be a need for Dr Newson and her clinics.
Rather than criticising Louise, the establishment should be embracing her, and asking her advice on how to set up a decent menopause service nationwide – and start caring for women.
