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[Elliebee]

Warwick Hospital gynaecologist says he and colleagues applaud exposé on Newson Health

https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/amp/panorama-investigation-and-probe-into-hrt-clinic-9385837/

[Seasidegirl]

"undercover filming" - wonder where that took place?

Can you imagine undercover filming at many of our GP appointments 🙄🤣

[Ayesha]

Interesting that LN declined to be interviewed, as when they have reported against the BHRT clinics prescribing off licence and compounded products, Marion Gluck was happy to be interviewed and it provided the balance that this programme clearly lacked. By declining it comes across as arrogant as she is very media savvy and would have come across well.

My exact thoughts. It doesn't look good not giving an interview, has she said anything since the broadcast or is she letting her fans do the talking for her.

Her reputation slaughtered in the Stratford Herald by the Gynae from Warwick Hospital!
https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/amp/panorama-investigation-and-probe-into-hrt-clinic-9385837/

 

[joziel]

She has posted on all her social media about it and today all patients at Newson Health got an email about it.

Hello,


As a patient of Newson Health, we wanted to write to you personally following recent media coverage of our clinic. It is incredibly important to us that you remain confident in the advice and care that you receive from us and hope that any concerns you may have are answered here.

We were very disappointed by the portrayal of Newson Health in the recent BBC Panorama programme and do not feel that it accurately represents the work of Dr Newson, Newson Health or any of our menopause specialist clinicians. As the UK’s largest menopause clinic, we use our wealth of clinical experience and data, as well as all the available scientific evidence to treat you on an individualised basis, to provide the best possible menopause care.
 
We would like to reassure you that we adhere to NICE (The National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines and operate with the support of all UK regulatory bodies. We are confident in the quality of care we provide, and continue to engage and cooperate with all regulatory bodies, including CQC.
 
Our clinicians are highly qualified doctors, nurses and pharmacists with specialist training in menopause care, enhanced by our shared experience from seeing more patients than any other menopause clinic in the UK. Whilst Dr Newson’s accreditation to the British Menopause Society has been questioned, we would like to assure you that she exceeds all the necessary qualifications and requirements to hold this, but it has been removed by the BMS without a satisfactory explanation or any ability to discuss or appeal it. Its removal does not impact her ability to act as a menopause specialist in any way.
 
We are committed to providing an excellent service and have been working hard in recent years to continuously improve this. Although we have a very low level of complaints (less than 0.5% of all appointments) we are sorry if any patient feels unhappy and hope that you feel able to raise any questions or concerns with us. Please do contact us directly if you have any on 01789595004.

We remain committed to the provision of safe and effective menopause care and education for all women and provide a wealth of free information and educational resources some of which are signposted below. We look forward to continuing to increase awareness of and access to menopause care in an area of health that is chronically underfunded, undervalued and under-researched.
 
Should you need any help or support please do get in touch.

Click HERE to read an explanation of why various doses are prescribed to different people.

For any other questions or further information, click HERE to access our wide range of resources.

[CLKD]

Tnx Joziel.

Of course a charity [BMS] wouldn't want any1 to 'bring them down' .......... however, in the UK 1 is innocent until found otherwise! 

Is Louise continuing with her speaking tour? 

[dangermouse]

Louise Newson also has her own charity, The Menopause Charity, which I presume is for her non-profit work. Basically, if you can prove that your organisation is for public benefit (like most colleges and schools are for the benefit of education), you can receive public funding, grants and donations. As long as you reinvest the funds and do not make a profit.

Most regulatory bodies work on the same basis and are held accountable by their Governing Bodies and Trustees.

BMS also have a patient arm called Women’s Health Concern which is why they have 2 charitable statuses.

[dangermouse]

I am not sure why they don’t just start routine womb scans for women on over 100 O at Newson Health - surely that will satisfy anyone’s concerns and is exactly what BHRT clinics do, when using more O or less P. The patients have to pay for the scans anyway so not sure why they have been taking such a risky approach, I had just assumed they all did that, including Studd.

[orrla]

I think I got caught up in all this and now pay the price!

Mid 2018, at my local Menopause clinic, I was told my dose was too high. Six years later, one after another issues appearing since, it wrecked my body that was nothing wrong with before.. including my bones!

Few months ago I had a young receptionist at my surgery questioning my privately increased back dose...

My GP tells me that HRT does not protect bones...

Front pages of the Guardian wonder if women should get prescribed hormones ..

To me, it sound like the usual:

Man envy that a woman is popular and makes money!

Patriarchy!

..yippee!

[Minusminnie]

Headline article in Daily Mail online this morning.

[Aubrey]

Mary G,  you stole the words right out of my mouth.

If the NHS took women seriously then private clinics working off licence wouldn't be necessary.

And it amazes me every time I go on this forum just how confused we all are about the HRT we've been liberally prescribed on licence by the NHS. Why aren't we better informed by the clinician that's prescribed it? Why are we all grasping at ideas and stories? Do people with diabetes, or epilepsy have to do this?

And why no monitoring? HRT can cause cancer, yet there's literally no monitoring pathway in existence in the NHS. Reactionary, cross your fingers dangerous, reactionary care.

[Aubrey]

I don't think higher doses should be 'forbidden' to women if there is evidence to back up that that's what she actually needs (and the fact that there is no room to allow for that within the NICE / NHS guidelines is a huge problem). But having a blind belief that all peri symptoms are down to needing higher and higher doses of Estrogen - which is the culture that seems to exist from within Newsom - is equally a big problem.

Panorama will have had their legal teams heavily involved ensuring they're portraying it accurately, for it to get onto their radar there must be something there.

Gill999, I think we know that journalists and the media in general make s*** up. Their modus operandi is to create fear and uncertainty, and women have become uppity about their right to feel well as they age, it's a hot topic, too, so ripe for the introduction of fear and doubt. I will not be watching the show.

I use the Newsom regime, I've had my endo' scanned, all is well.

[Nas]

Be careful of scaremongering Aubrey, you’ve just said in your post, HRT can cause cancer. This is a public forum.

[laszla]

This part of today's Mail interview sums it all up:

"She booked an appointment with Professor Nick Panay, ¬president of the International Menopause Society.
Her levels of estradiol, the main form of oestrogen, were on the low side. She went on to be -prescribed a higher dose of 300 micrograms and began, she says, 'to feel the best I've ever felt for many, many years'.
When the BMS first objected to what Louise was doing, she asked them straight, why?
'I said, 'If it's about dosing I'm on a higher dose because Nick Panay prescribed it for me. If I use less I get migraines, joint pains – I feel dreadful. How can he [Nick] do it and I can't?'"

As I said in earlier post on this thread, Newson hasn't pioneered anything - which is not remotely to denigrate her - she has simply more or less propagated the John Studd approach to a mass audience (even Panay isn't an innovator as such but in turn is broadly practising the Studd M.O, understandably as he studied with him.)

But as Newson says, if 'he' prescribes higher doses in some instances it's perfectly respectable, but it's a different story when 'she' does.

In any case it's good to see that even the (presumably) ultra conservative DM readers are vastly in support of Newton.

With all that said, I do think the LN doctor on the programme who said 'it's fine, Louise Newson herself takes a large dose' was really misguided, not to say foolish, and handed the 'enemy' a weapon on a silver platter. It's just not a professional thing to say in a consultation and meaningless given that every patient is different.

[dangermouse]

Yes, that’s similar to my point, it would be simple to make the higher dosing safely prescribed and monitored for the few who need. It seems unnecessarily messy to just offer it to everyone not feeling good on the usual doses, due to the matter of fact attitude that as it makes her feel good, it should make every woman feel good.

I think a lot of Studd’s patients became frustrated with him for the same reasons.

She comes across well in this new article but it does feel as if she has waited for the weekend to make her response more dramatic in a ‘broken her silence’ strategy. I suspect she will have been advised by the ITV media people as this also has consequences to their programmes such as This Morning and for all the celebs on Loose Women who are patients of hers, and support her, to also maintain their reputations.

She probably should have just stayed off TV like Studd, as it’s a rabbit hole full of warrens, and let her celeb patients do the talking.

[joziel]

LN has had a hysterectomy (if I recall right) so her being prescribed a higher dose isn't going to cause endometrial cancer, no matter what dose she gets prescribed. So that's a silly line of argument.

And I'm all in her favour.