112 - ‘Menopause is a public health issue’ with Nick Panay
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
World renowned Consultant Gynaecologist, Nick Panay, of Hormone Health, shares his past and current interests in hormone related issues such as menopause, pre-menstrual syndrome, progesterone intolerance and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency.
He describes ongoing areas within women’s hormone health where there continues to be huge unmet need and how, through training, he is seeking to overcome this, not just in the UK but globally through his work with the International Menopause Society.
Together, the experts discuss the importance of their roles in empowering women and supporting them to make their own choice about treatments and both agree that as a public health issue, the menopause requires a national approach that focusses on preventative rather than reactive medicine.
Nick’s 3 aims for global menopause care:
- Women have ease of access to information about the menopause
- Recommendations on hormone therapy and menopause care need to be updated and made applicable, globally, to all healthcare professionals
- Receive funding for a definitive study on the best way to treat the menopause for all the benefits and no side effects or risks – that is the holy grail.
Find Nick on social media at:
Twitter - @HormoneHealth92
Facebook - @HormoneHealthClinics
Instagram - @hormonehealthuk
LinkedIn - Nick Panay
Website - https://hormonehealth.co.uk/
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | Today I'm very excited and honoured actually to have with me someone called Nick Panay, |
| 0:37.1 | who many of you might hopefully |
| 0:39.2 | have heard of and I always think of him as the king of the menopause. So welcome Nick to my |
| 0:44.9 | podcast today. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me, Louise. It's a great pleasure and honour for me to be |
| 0:50.0 | with you tonight. So some of you might know I haven't always done menopause as a full-time career. |
| 0:56.5 | I started off doing hospital medicine and then went into general practice. And in 2015, when the |
| 1:02.1 | Nice and National Institute of Health and Care Excellence guidelines came out in the menopause, |
| 1:06.9 | it really sparked an interest with me because it sort of helped confirm how safe HRT was. |
| 1:12.6 | And I went to various conferences, went on various lectures, did lots of self-directed learning. |
| 1:18.4 | But I really wanted to get some hands-on experience. |
| 1:21.7 | So as a crazy menopausal woman myself, I wrote to Nick as an email and said, |
| 1:26.7 | can I sit in your clinic? And I was |
| 1:29.2 | absolutely gobsmatt when he said yes. So I went one summer, I think probably in 2016 and sat in his |
| 1:35.4 | clinic and I know that I pestered him and asked lots of questions and I could see his inbox getting |
| 1:40.7 | busier and fuller. And all he wanted to do was try and answer some of his |
| 1:45.1 | emails in between patients. And all I wanted to do was pick his brains. And since that time, |
| 1:50.1 | Nick's been a really good mentor to me and has always helps, I think, sort of protect me and |
| 1:55.9 | looked after me a bit in various difficult times that I've had. So I'm really grateful that you allowed me |
| 2:01.6 | that day of sitting in your clinic. So thank you. So tell me about your background, because |
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