Welcome to Action Menopause Warwickshire
Are you perimenopausal or menopausal and having a difficult time? Would you value the opportunity to share your experiences with other women in a social setting and receive advice from healthcare providers? If so, please come to an Action Menopause Warwickshire Social Group Meeting – see the invitation below:
HELPING MEN TO SUPPORT THE MENOPAUSAL WOMEN IN THEIR LIVES
Action Menopause Warwickshire and Healthwatch Warwickshire have collaborated to ask perimenopausal and menopausal women what support they would like from the men in their lives.
Our survey gave some valuable insights which were subsequently shared with men at a Focus Group held in September. We are now considering how recommendations from the Men’s Focus Group might be taken forward.
To find out more about how offering information and support to staff going through menopause and all of its stages can benefit your organisation, teams, patients and service users. Go to:
HEALTHWATCH WARWICKSHIRE REPORT ON MENOPAUSE SERVICES IN WARWICKSHIRE
Many of the women who attend our meetings may have completed the Healthwatch questionnaire regarding menopause services in Warwickshire and, Caroline Graham from Healthwatch, who attends many of our meetings, has asked us to thank you for your help. The Report has now been published and the link to open the report is:
Action Menopause Warwickshire is delighted to announce that it was shortlisted in the prestigious Annual Self Care Award organised by the Self Care Forum.
Our social group meetings, on which our application was based, are held every 2 months and enable us to provide practical support, advice and education to help women understand the impact of the perimenopause and menopause on their bodies and to introduce them to methods of self-care that can help them live well throughout this time
The Self Care Forum is a charity that supports organisations to help their communities and service users understand better how to practice self-care and is the UK’s:
• leading independent collator and promoter of best practice around self-care.
• go-to place for evidence-based resources, current opinion and self-care interventions.
• foremost campaigner for self-care.
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Comments received from previous meetings
“Thank you so very much for last night, I am still “full” of it and my mind is going into overdrive talking about it to my partner, he said for the first time in ages he can see a difference in me, I said it was great being amongst people who get it, who understand, who know. I don’t know where to begin to thank you, those 2 hours have made an enormous difference to me and for the FIRST time in an extremely long time, i have woken up feeling the most positive i have for a very very long time.
My head is in a whirl wind of what i want to do, what I want to achieve, and i want to start it all NOW.”
“I wanted to provide some feedback about the recent menopause talk. I was a bit sceptical about coming and, dare I say it, I thought it might be a bit boring!
However I was very pleasantly surprised as I found it really engaging and informative. Thank you for putting it together so well.
The physio talk using the pelvis model was really interesting and she kept us all very engaged throughout and was so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about her subject!
The idea of questions and answers done in the way you did worked really well, I thought, as it mostly remained confidential, in case people were concerned. The answers given were very in depth and helpful.”
Our history:
We are a local charitable group founded by Advanced Nurse Practitioner Sue Thomas to support local women to access the services and products they require to live their lives well through the menopause.
A focus group held Warwick in 2022 helped us to:
- Gather women’s experiences of the menopause
- Understand how lives are being impacted.
- Discover what has been helpful/not helpful in their journey
- Identify gaps in services and inequity in access
Some very powerful messages came from the Focus Group and these, including the type of help women would like to receive, have been incorporated into a report which can be made available upon request to info@actionmenopausewarwickshire.org.uk
The Social Group Meetings were developed as a result of the Focus Group and it is our intention, once we receive our official charitable status and can obtain funding, to further expand the support we are able to give to Warwickshire women.
To find out more please email info@actionmenopausewarwickshire.org.uk
or find us on social media
Useful links:
https://www.womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advice/factsheets/menopause/
https://thebms.org.uk/find-a-menopause-specialist/
https://thebms.org.uk/2022/06/bms-statement-on-over-the-counter-menopause-tests/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/easier-access-to-locally-applied-hrt-to-treat-postmenopausal-vaginal-symptoms-in-landmark-mhra-reclassification
https://www.managemymenopause.co.uk/handbook/hrt/
https://www.balance-menopause.com/
All enquiries to info@actionmenopausewarwickshire.org.uk