Menopause Support has launched a guidance booklet “Understanding Menopause” to support everyone to better understand and navigate Menopause.
The booklet is part of the organisation’s wider #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign, a grassroots community movement supported by over 200,000 individuals via its online petition to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting MP.
Diane Danzebrink, the founder of Menopause Support, is determined that every woman should have the right information and support from their GP.
Diane said “Menopause Support is proud to publish this much needed guidance booklet. Women experiencing perimenopause and menopause should not have to suffer in silence. We urge women across the UK to read the guidance and speak to their GP armed with the completed symptom checker. There are lots of treatment and support options available to you, please seek the support that you deserve. We know that some simple steps such as a national public health campaign and a GP health check at 40 would help to support women at this crucial time. We call on the Government to put them in place as a matter of urgency”.
To order paper copies of the booklet please email hello@menopausesupport.co.uk please tell us the number of booklets that you would like to order, and the name and full address for delivery. We can then provide the final cost, including shipping, and payment details.
Please note that we receive no statutory funding to produce this much needed resource. To allow us to continue to replenish stocks we provide these booklets at cost price plus the cost of handling and shipping.
Requests for Free Booklets
We are keen to see this resource available widely, particularly in community, voluntary, and NHS healthcare settings. Where financial restraints exist, we will always try to support requests for free booklets, where possible. If you are requesting free booklets, please provide us with further details about your request. Please note that we are unable to cover shipping costs if your request is successful.
Booklet PDF downloads:
The pdf of the booklet in English is available to download, share or print.
Other languages are available:
In Welsh
In Polish
In Spanish
In Urdu
Download and print the booklet poster for your workplace, community space, healthcare setting and anywhere else you can think of. The poster is also available in Welsh here
Some testimonials:
Thank you for supplying us with copies of your ‘Understanding Menopause’ booklet, which is a great resource for our patients to use. The booklet contains so much valuable information, explained in an easy-to-understand way, without confusing clinical jargon! I particularly like the way the booklet takes you through the menopause journey, making it easier to understand what may follow. I cannot fault the booklet in any way, I think it’s great. We have placed them in the surgeries across the Waterside Primary Care Network.
Thank you so much for producing such a great information booklet.
Best wishes
Yvonne Sayers
Health and Wellbeing Team Lead, Waterside Primary Care Network
I just want to thank your organisation for gifting all us women with the education that is so desperately needed
Our workforce is primarily women and many in the latter age bracket, and I know these booklets and the poster will be invaluable.
Julie Rix , Waveney Homefirst Suffolk County Council.
I’m displaying the booklet in my Primary care hub in Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton.
It has flown out of the leaflet rack.
I’ve given it to many patients who are unaware of menopause symptoms.
The symptom checker list is brilliant and many patients have gone through this and ended up seeking HRT from the GP.
Brilliant Booklet. Thank you.
Debbie Hinde
It’s very comprehensive especially regarding HRT and there are 2 really useful symptom logs. The genitourinary symptoms checker is particularly comprehensive and helpful breaking down the taboos surrounding this aspect of perimenopause.
Thanks again for sending the booklets through.
Helen Clemow, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust