074 - HRT Prescriptions in England - Dr Sarah Hillman & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Newson Health podcast series, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dr Sarah Hillman, a GP and clinical lecturer in Primary Care at the University of Warwick.
Sarah talks about a piece of research she has recently published that looks at HRT prescriptions in England. The research shows that women in deprived areas are less likely to be prescribed HRT and Sarah talks to Dr Newson about why this matters.
Sarah and Dr Newson also discuss a menopause event at Warwick University and how important engagement is within women’s workplaces.
Dr Sarah Hillman's Three Take Home Tips:
- Speak to your GP about your menopause, and ask which GP has an interest in women’s health.
- Have a look online for evidence-based research. including the new Balance app.
- Make time to think about your body and how to get help through the menopause, it’s hard to always find time, but you need to be well in order to look after others and function at work.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.0 | So today I have with me, Dr Sarah Hillman, who is a clinical lecturer in primary care at the University of Warwick. And I was introduced to her a few years ago now by Rebecca Lewis, who's one of the doctors, as many of you know, who works with me. And Sarah's got an interesting background. She's interested in women's health and primary care, which essentially means general practice. So I wanted to interview her today to talk about her job, |
| 0:56.6 | about research, but also about some really interesting research that's just been published. |
| 1:01.5 | So welcome, Sarah. Thanks for coming today. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you, Louise. |
| 1:04.5 | So tell me a bit about your background, because actually it's very interesting. |
| 1:08.9 | A lot of people think doctors are people that |
| 1:11.2 | see patients and make patients better which often hopefully we do but there's a lot more that goes on |
| 1:16.4 | in the background and you didn't start off doing research did you so just tell me how you've got |
| 1:22.1 | your way you're going sure in fact i didn't even start out in primary care, Louise. I started out because I wanted to be an obstetrician. |
| 1:30.6 | So I started training in obstetrics and gynecology. |
| 1:35.1 | And I did that for quite a long time. |
| 1:36.5 | And I did some quite a lot of research. |
| 1:39.0 | And I was very quickly becoming an academic obstetrician. |
| 1:43.3 | But I realized that that wasn't really where my heart |
| 1:46.0 | was and that actually surgery wasn't what I really enjoyed. What I enjoyed most was talking |
| 1:51.8 | to people and being with people. And so I spoke to a few people about retraining as a GP. |
| 1:58.3 | And it seemed to be that the work, the clinical work would suit me but that actually |
| 2:03.1 | my gynecological background would be something that would be quite useful in primary care, as well as |
| 2:08.7 | my past experience of research. So I retrained as a GP in the local area, local to you actually, |
| 2:15.5 | Louise, in Coventry and Warwickshire. And now I'm a |
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