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.

On this week's podcast, I've got with me a nurse who I've known for quite a few years now and

ensnared her into the Newsome Health community more recently.

So someone called Sue Thomas, who I met quite a few years ago, Sue, didn't I?

Did you come and set my clinic first, or was it a conference that you came to?

Yeah, no, I sat in on your clinic.

You very kindly let me do that because, of course, when I'd been through the British Menopause Society

course for nurses there's no mentorship unfortunately nationally there's shortage so in order to

get the experience the clinical experience I asked could I come and sit in you very kindly let me and I sat

in with Rebecca actually and I think that was after we'd done a little presentation on group consultations many

moons ago. Yeah, that's exactly right. And I think like me, you were sort of quite standard with the

stories and the need for women. And I know when I did some theory training, many years ago,

I read lots of articles, went on a few courses, but I just thought,

when a patient's sitting in front of me, I don't quite know what to say or what to do,

and you want to see people do it in action.

And it's like anything in medicine, isn't it?

You learn on the job.

You obviously need to have theory.

Of course you do, whether you're a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or whatever,

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