here are my ideas, not well written cos its late...........
A proper study with enough participants for statistical significant finding on the benefits of HRT and risks of HRT based on the age at which women commenced and stopped HRT treatment effectiveness and the significant risks as a consequence of taking HRT.
Research to develop better formulations of HRT and means of transmission (e.g. pill or patch, cream, coil or implant) and which is best suited under different condition (e.g. age of women taking or reason for need (e.g. hysterectomy) and type of symptoms it controls e.g. flushes, atrophy, aches, insomnia.
A study into the wider issues of the menopause and its impact on quality of life, social, economic and emotional which empowers women to stop suffering in silence. Getting the menopause, its consequences and importance (every woman becomes menopausal it isn't optional) on the public health agenda so that it is not hidden away.
Making menopause seen as a public health issue in the same way things like diabetes is treated, reported and researched by ongoing programmes of research funded in various way (e.g. Diabetes UK is a registered charity which funds a lot of research into treatment and long term interventions. Why not a Menopause UK? - Why?........ because it is still regarded as something women should just have to put up with rather than a set of symptoms which can be treated and controlled by medication prescribed on the basis of proper research and information to give the choice back to woman and the ability to make the HRT decision themselves on sound grounds not old questionable conflicting “research†information.
On the question of standing your ground this is relevant as reported on BBC website: Patients should be pushier with GPs, says watchdog chairman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25890572