103 - Dr Radhika Vohra: When will women’s health become a priority?

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to GP and Trustee of The Menopause Charity, Dr Radhika Vohra. Radhika is a GP with a special interest in women's health, particularly the menopause and perimenopause. She is also an educator for GP trainees and other healthcare professionals. Together they discuss the current landscape of menopause care in the UK, the poor profile menopause has in healthcare, training and research and the improved appetite professionals now have for more menopause education. Radhika shares her insights from a women's health perspective and hopes the work of The Menopause Charity will be a voice for everyone. Radhika's 3 hopes for menopause across the globe:

Greater recognition of the impact of perimenopause and menopause on women's lives
More education for women and healthcare professionals alike
Better support for women and professionals working with menopausal women.

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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
0:22.5	Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.4	So today I have with me a good friend, colleague, and actually someone I've met, but never even
0:37.1	mess in real life,
0:38.2	the whole virtual world that we live in now. So I have in front of me, Radhika Bora, who is a GP
0:43.6	and educator in women's health. And we've been liaising, I guess, behind the scenes for the last
0:49.1	maybe year or so, and both share similar passions. And also, Ritika is one of the trustees for the
0:55.9	Menopause charity. So welcome today. Thanks ever so much for joining me. No, thank you for having
1:01.3	me. It's a pleasure to be here. So I can't actually remember, can you, when we first sort of met
1:05.9	virtually, if you like? I think it was just post-pandemic around April. That's what we first connected and then did
1:13.2	some translation work to try and help women have more access to counselling material and looked
1:18.7	at diversifying what was out there for different ethnic minority groups and took it from there
1:24.0	and we've moved on. Absolutely. Yes. So for those of you that haven't looked under the resources section of
1:30.0	my menopause doctor website under videos, Ritika very kindly has translated some of the
1:35.3	videos into Punjabi. And we've had some great feedback about that. And as many of you know,
1:41.3	I spend a lot of my time trying to work out how to reach other women and men, actually, anyone who will listen about the menopause.
1:48.8	And we know there are a lot of really disadvantaged.
1:52.4	Well, I think most women are disadvantaged in the menopause, but there are some that are disadvantaged even more.
1:58.1	And it's so important, isn't it?
1:59.6	With all our workers, medics, you know, we are not
2:02.7	judgmental at all. We help. And I think that's one of the beauties and actually privileges of
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