024 - Menopause & West Midlands Police - Yvonne Bruton & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr Louise Newson chats to Yvonne Bruton, a chief inspector at West Midlands Police who currently heads up the Violence Reduction Unit. Yvonne is also the chair of her Women in Policing association. Dr Newson and Yvonne have worked closely in the past and shared a journey over the last few years; Dr Newson has shared her passion and expertise and Yvonne has shared the problems that are experienced, not only by women in the workplace, but also by trying to design organisational responses to these within a challenging working environment! Policing is about improving people’s lives and protecting them from harm – but they need to look after the workforce to enable them to get out there and do that. Dr Newson has helped support and champion the work that West Midlands Police have been doing with menopause in the workplace and in this podcast they discuss Yvonne's inspirational work and how other organisation's can follow their lead.
Yvonne's Three Take Home Tips for Menopause Support at Work:
- Find someone to talk to - that could be a colleague experiencing similar problems or a peer support group.
- Find an organisational advocate within your workplace.
- Don't be afraid to make noise!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 0:15.1 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.8 | Today I'm delighted to have Yvonne Bruton here, who I first met a few years ago when I was doing some work with West Midlands Police. So good morning, Yvonne. |
| 0:34.6 | Good morning. I was trying to work out just before we switch record what your actual official title is, |
| 0:40.0 | and it changes quite a lot. |
| 0:41.5 | Yes. |
| 0:41.6 | And it's quite a mouthful. |
| 0:42.5 | So could you explain what you do? |
| 0:44.2 | Of course. |
| 0:44.6 | So I'm a Chief Inspector in West Midlands Police. |
| 0:47.6 | My role at the moment is I'm the strategic lead in our violence reduction unit. So that's some of the challenges around reducing knife crime, youth violence. |
| 0:55.7 | But across the whole vulnerability violence exploitation arena, my whole four weeks in, |
| 1:01.3 | don't yet know what I'm doing, but I will do. |
| 1:03.8 | It's a huge job. |
| 1:05.1 | It's massive. |
| 1:06.0 | It's really exciting, but it's daunting because there's a huge amount of real expectation on it and we |
| 1:12.4 | are a bit like we were just saying you know saving lives the potential to make a huge difference |
| 1:17.2 | massive yeah and what's exciting is it's longer term and it's partnership and it's prevention based |
| 1:24.2 | which i think could be a real sort of step change in how we do stuff. Absolutely. And I think |
| 1:30.5 | prevention is key, not just for your work, but, you know, for my work as well as a doctor, if we can |
| 1:36.7 | prevent disease, if we can prevent incidents, if we can prevent knife crime. Isn't that better than |
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