Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.

I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,

and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Hello, today I'm really pleased and delighted to introduce to you Diane Porterfield,

who's a nurse who I've known for a little while now,

and I'm thrilled that she's been doing more and more with me in my clinic and also to improve care of menopaus or women.

So hi, Diane.

Hello, Louise.

Thanks for us much for coming.

So you're a nurse practitioner, but you've also got your own company, haven't you, called Born to Care.

But there's a bit of a play on the word born.

So perhaps you could just say initially what you do and what your company is.

I'm a nurse practitioner. I've been nursing for over 30 years now. I developed born to care about five years ago because I realized that there was a need for more education with women generally in the workplace and socially just to educate people on their health.

And so really the last couple of years,

I've specialised more in menopause care. And I've been giving talks in different settings

and workplaces and in social groups and individually to women, really trying to empower them

and educate them about their own health and how menopause can affect their lives and the families,

really. So how did you get into menopause more

i met a lady um a couple of years ago that had had a really awful time with her menopause and

um she didn't know anything about it and she realized that there was very little help out there and she

asked me for some support so i did some research and then were I read into it and read the nice guidelines and

lots of your research as well.

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