I'm not sure about Scotland - I've only ever seen an NHS endocrinologist who was a misogynistic old duffer, claiming in one appointment that the blood pressure boosting benefits I was getting from licorice root must be a placebo, and in my next appointment that it was actually him who had discovered and written papers on its antimineralocorticoid effects!
Which unless he published in hieroglyphics on ancient Egyptian tablet, where the earliest reference to it's medicinal properties has been found, cannot have been quite true!
Unfortunately it seems to be the same crowd who work in the NHS supplementing their income in the private hospitals in Scotland.
I can however recommend One Welbeck in London where I saw the legendary Dr boon lim - he is a cardiologist but they do have really good multidisciplinary specialists including menopause and endocrinology.
It is good where there is diagnostic uncertainty or crossover between specialities as they tend to collaborate to provide holistic care for the individual as compared to the siloed practice within the NHS.
Another London option sorry, but the clinic founded by the late professor Studd is still there and being run by those he trained. They specialise in everything female hormone related and if anyone can turn around a really challenging case, the patient who has "been everywhere and tried everything" with no relief, it is them.
I also think highly of Dr Newson and co however I think both their remit and their armoury in terms of treatment options would maybe be a bit limited in the setting of someone with potentially multiple intersecting chronic conditions whose healing is likely to require more than just increasing doses of body identical E P and T.
