GPs caught in media menopause spotlight

Menopause is certainly big news at the moment. Last week, NHS England published its first human resources guidance for supporting colleagues through menopause, including allowing flexible working,1 to much fanfare—and media coverage.There is a flipside to such positive developments: thanks to a rise in media representations of menopausal women, the UK is in the throes of what Susan Davis, an Australian clinical endocrinologist who is an adviser to the NHS menopause group steering committee, terms “menopause hysteria.” And GPs are caught in the middle of it.North Yorkshire GP Heather Wetherell published an exasperated tweet on 5 August: “[Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)] appointments demand totally out of control. This week we filled two surgeries with nothing but HRT queries. Yes, that’s two surgeries of clinician appointments that patients with other illnesses weren’t able to access appointments demand totally out of control. This week we filled two surgeries with nothing but HRT…
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