BRYONY GORDON: The way the NHS treats female health is shockingly inadequate. That's why women like me have to go to unregulated menopause clinics By Bryony Gordon Published: 01:54, 4 October 2024 | Updated: 01:57, 4 October 2024 e-mail View comments It’s not often I end up shouting at the radio – not since I started sticking HRT patches on my buttocks, anyway – but on Tuesday I found myself in the kitchen, shrieking with rage. It was Woman’s Hour, of all things, that did it.
There I was, making myself a coffee, when on came the former chair of the British Menopause Society to discuss a Panorama documentary that’d been shown on the BBC the previous evening, about the menopause industry and the huge private sector that has sprung up in the absence of any consistent care for women on the NHS . I expected Dr Paula Briggs to display some compassion for the desperate women who go private to manage symptoms of the menopause. She is, after all, a representative of the country’s largest menopause charity, established in 1989 to educate and guide healthcare professionals on post-reproductive health.
Podcast All episodes Play on Apple Spotify So it was baffling when, instead, she began to deliver an incomprehensible monologue about pharmacokinetic studies (which look at how the body interacts with medication over time) on HRT and the need for women to be more patient with the NHS, especially as everything was moving ‘too quickly’. Not that quickly, given the a.