Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause.

So today on the podcast, I'm very delighted to introduce to you, Alistadabie, who I've only

recently met, actually, but he is going to become a very important part of my life.

I'm still happily married, but you'll be pleased to know.

But Alistair has come as the CEO of the clinic, but he's a bit bigger than the clinic, actually.

He's really come to help shape the future with me for women's health.

So welcome, Alistair, to the podcast today.

Thank you very much. So Alist's, this is his third day working. He's had no warning. We found a

half-hour window and I've yoked him into the studios to do the recording. So this is completely

from the heart, which is how I do most of my things.

There's no pressure there then.

No pressure at all, Alistair.

So as some of you know, I've run a clinic and it's a private clinic because when I wanted

to do more menopause work as a specialist, I couldn't actually find a job.

And it's not because I wasn't good enough or I didn't

have the right qualifications, but actually NHS menopause care is a huge unmet need. And I

approached two different CCGs. I went to various GP clinics to say, could I just come and do a

clinic for you? And they said, no, no, no, it's not a need. We need help with osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes.

I said, yeah, but I can help all that if I do menopause care. And we said, no. So I wanted to do

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