Menopause care inequalities, with Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Kuki Avery

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Liz Earle

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Did you know a huge number of women face more barriers than others when it comes to receiving vital menopause care? GPs Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Kuki Avery join Liz on this episode to explore inequalities in menopause healthcare, and what can be done to make it truly accessible to all.

Dr Nighat reveals the barriers to menopause care faced by ethnic minority women, such as being left out of clinical research and the conversations surrounding menopause, institutionalised racism, and generational trauma.

Dr Kuki discusses the menopause care hurdles that women with learning disabilities often come across, such as late and misdiagnosis, communication difficulties, and also being left out of research.

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0:00.0	all the posters will say go and get your cervical screening go and have your
0:04.8	breast check they were all still white middle class people on a poster so
0:09.2	if you can't see something you don't think it reflects to your the you at all
0:13.6	and you don't think you're part of the messaging so that's why we've got to
0:17.2	the point with menopause women genuinely believe that the symptoms that we're
0:21.2	describing and the impact on our bones the impact on our cardiovascular health
0:25.4	the impact on mood and relationships and depression the fact that we are
0:29.6	surviving not thriving the fact that we would leave work financially be
0:34.2	hindered in the future we genuinely as black and Asian communities believe
0:38.4	there is that with how belief that it's not going to happen to us it's not
0:42.2	going to be something that will affect us
0:45.8	Dr Niga Arif is a GP specialising in women's health and menopause care and
0:51.4	she's conscious that menopause care needs to be accessible to everyone
0:56.6	unfortunately that is not currently the case
1:00.2	this is the Lizzo well-being show the podcast helping us all have a better
1:04.2	second half I'm Lizzo and I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for us all to
1:09.1	thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today
1:14.4	well world menopause day falls on October the 18th so all this month every episode
1:20.5	is a menopause special now anyone time 13 million UK women are going through
1:26.4	menopause and as a listener of this show you will be well aware that
1:30.0	research shows HRT can help ease symptoms and protect long-term health
1:35.9	but the trouble is a huge number of women face serious barriers when it comes
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