Sounds a good idea Sooby - I do think that women are not educated about this time in our lives and the consequences can have devastating effects. I am often chatting with women about the meno and HRT and it staggers me how ignorant they are on this - it's something we all go through without any preparation.
I'm surprised that magazines like Good House Keeping don't do a good article based on the new NICE guidelines - the articles I read all tend to push 'the Natural way', making those of us who need HRT feel a failure - we shouldn't feel we need to justify why we use HRT as it is often the best option - a good diet and exercise regime won't be enough for around 40% of women.
Good luck. Dg x
Somehow this needs to go viral on social media (facebook, youtube etc), because these days that's the only way to get to the masses worldwide. Look at what a good job the media did of scaring everyone senseless about HRT. We need something like that in reverse to counteract the negativity that is still prevalent around the world. The media was really quick to report on the WHI study, but how many in the media have bothered with NICE?
Just very late to this thread as I was on holiday so only on the first page so far although skimmed some of it on my phone - so apologies if this has already been said...
There is an excellent article in this month's (does it come out monthly?) Good Housekeeping about the menopause and the NICE Guidelines, and HRT! Someone sent it to me yesterday.
Also re the publicity and awareness. The British Menopause Society is launching just such a media campaign at their conference in May which will involve outreach to major national media (I'm assuming this is not confidential - I haven't been told it is), and including earlier to some consumer magazines. The campaign will focus on empowering women to visit their healthcare professional to discuss their menopausal symptoms and to seek appropriate treatment, but also to launch the results of a recent survey conducted in light of the new NICE menopause guidelines. This will be 6 months since the launch of the guidelines so the idea is to see if it has made an impact on women and where gaps for improvement might be.
I got involved in this (as other members might also have done) because there was a call put out on this forum back in November for women to share their stories with a view to speaking to journalists if necessary when the campaign was launched. I responded so my case study was submitted and will be sent out next month along with others – so that journalists can talk to real live women about the issues. I doubt they will want to use my story though as it's not dramatic enough – far too dull!
So things are going to be happening – but the more other women do the better so great to tackle it from a different angle through social media – and also as said for individual women to do their bit at a local level.
Also the Guidelines themselves suggest specific actions that could be taken to improve implementation of the guidelines and communication which can be found here:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng23/chapter/Menopause-implementation-getting-started and which may give you some ideas.
Menopause Matters does have a facebook page but I do think there is a taboo about such things – even though I'm in my 60's I have friends of all ages and certainly don't want to be seen by any of my friends to comment on menopausal issues!!! There is no way I would share anything to do with the menopause on Facebook, but I have put myself out there as above so prepared to share my story with magazines/newspapers etc!! I did draw the line at live TV and radio though so said no to this

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There should be hard copies of leaflets about this site for example or something about menopause which any of us could send off for and which we could drop in our local surgery - just think how many would be covered if we all agreed to do that? Perhaps Dr Currie could commission someone to do this - she is current Chair of the BMS as well as director of Menopause Matters? Maybe something like this is happening already?
Women's Health Concern is the patient arm of the BMS so maybe something could be done through their work rather than re-inventing the wheel - although I would think anything that could be done anywhere to raise awareness is an improvement!
https://www.womens-health-concern.org/The subject of BMS conference this year is "NICE Menopause Guideline, from publication to practice" so that should have a major impact.
https://www.thebms.org.ukHurdity x