048 - Newson Health in the North - Dr Zoe Hodson & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dr Zoe Hodson who is the lead doctor at the North West branch of Newson Health. Zoe has worked as a GP and GP trainer for over 15 years and has encountered many hurdles when trying to deliver menopause care; from lack of training as an undergraduate and postgraduate to being told that there wasn't any funding for a GP led menopause clinic in her area.
Dr Newson and Zoe discuss many of the frustrations that GPs and their patients face as well as the work that is being done by Newson Health in areas such as GP education and the provision of evidence based, accessible information for women throughout the world.
The team here at Newson Health believe that menopause consultations should be based on shared decision making and they discuss the importance of women and doctors being able to fully understand the long term health benefits and improved quality of life that HRT and holistic menopausal care can deliver.
Dr Zoe Hodson's Three Take Home Tips:
- Read or listen to as much evidence-based information as you can about the menopause before booking an appointment with your healthcare provider.
- Share a symptom checker with anyone who will listen - we have to start joining the dots and this is a cheap, easily accessible way to start.
- Gather your soapboxes! We need everyone to be sharing and signposting to correct, evidence based information.
Find out more about Dr Zoe Hodson and our new North West clinic in this video.
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. |
| 0:33.5 | So today I have with me a friend and colleague, Dr Zoe Hudson, who's a GP and a menopause expert who works in the North West. |
| 0:39.1 | And I'm very excited because she's joined the Newsome Health team to expand the clinic. |
| 0:45.2 | So we now have access to women in the North West a lot easier than then coming down to my clinic in Stratford, Porn Haven. |
| 0:46.7 | So welcome, Zoe. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.2 | Lovely to be here, virtually. |
| 0:53.0 | Virtually, of course, yes, because we're recording this in times of COVID. |
| 0:54.2 | So obviously we're both at home, but we're doing this remotely. But we thought today we would focus more about a GP's |
| 1:00.2 | perspective of the menopause because I was a GP for many years, Zoe's a GP. And it can be very |
| 1:06.9 | easy for women to be disillusioned about their own menopause experience or a family |
| 1:12.4 | member's menopause experience and be very negative about general practitioners. And in fact, |
| 1:18.2 | as a GP, it's very hard sometimes to diagnose the perimenopause and menopause. And then it's |
| 1:23.7 | also quite hard for them to be able to deliver the right treatment that's evidence-based. |
| 1:28.8 | So we just thought we'd talk through some of this reasoning. |
| 1:32.5 | So, Zoe, before we start, could you just enlighten me and tell me how much education that you |
| 1:39.3 | received as an undergraduate and also a postgraduate about the menopause? |
| 1:44.1 | Well, I think at medical school, I really don't. |
| 1:47.1 | I mean, I know it's quite a long time ago, |
| 1:48.6 | but I don't remember menopause being mentioned at all. |
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