3.1 - Dr Louise Newson - The Menopause Doctor. Prescription charges - fair or a tax on the sick?

The Aural Apothecary

Episode 3.1 - Dr Louise Newson - The Menopause Dr.
The Aural Apothecaries are back for Series 3! In this episode it is our great pleasure to interview Dr Louise Newson - also known as the Menopause Doctor. As well as a GP and menopause specialist, Louise is also host of the popular podcast ‘My Menopause Doctor’.
We chat to Louise about how the Menopause and the prescribing of HRT in general is an often neglected, misunderstood and underdiagnosed topic of healthcare - and the unnecessary suffering that happens as a result. Our micro-discussion focuses on the rights and wrongs of prescription charges and we find out who Gimmo met at the Greenman festival and what Steve woke up with in bed on his summer holidays.
As with all our guests we ask Louise to pick her ‘Desert Island Drug’, a career defining anthem and a book that has influenced her work.
https://www.menopausedoctor.co.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/aligning-the-upper-age-for-nhs-prescription-charge-exemptions-with-the-state-pension-age
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BIO - Dr Louise Newson BSc(Hons) MBChB(Hons) MRCP FRCGP
Louise is a GP and menopause specialist. She is an advisor to the NHS and on the Clinical Steering Committee for NHSEI’s Menopause Improvement Programme. She is the director of Newson Health Ltd (www.newsonhealth.co.uk) She runs a menopause and wellbeing centre in Stratford-upon-Avon which is the largest menopause clinic in the world. She has developed the menopause information website www.menopausedoctor.co.uk and the free menopause app “balance” – www.balance-app.com. She has also authored the Haynes Menopause Manual. Louise is the founder and a trustee for The Menopause Charity – www.themenopausecharity.org which will support and empower women with evidence-based knowledge in many different ways.
She has also set up a not-for-profit company – Newson Health Research and Education. She has recently launched the Confidence in the Menopause educational programme - www.fourteenfish.com/menopause/welcome and is involved in research with colleagues in Warwick, Oxford and Liverpool Universities and London School of Tropical Medicine. Louise has contributed to menopause related articles in different newspapers and magazines and been on numerous radio and TV programmes. She also hosts a weekly podcast for women (entitled Newson Health).