{"id":4951,"date":"2019-09-10T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T08:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:25:13","slug":"message-from-di-danzebrink-another-result-for-menopause-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=4951","title":{"rendered":"Message from Di Danzebrink &#8211; another result for Menopause Support!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Result! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DI-HS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4957\" src=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DI-HS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Earlier in the year I was contacted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium who asked if Menopause Support would make a submission to the committee explaining why they should approve Ospemifene, an oral drug for vaginal atrophy.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the members of my FB group and Jane Lewis&#8217; FB group for their thoughts and then wrote the submission explaining that the drug would offer options to women who can\u2019t tolerate vaginal oestrogen and was important to consider for any woman who required personal care including many elderly women living with debilitating urinary &amp; vaginal symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to say that yesterday the SMC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicines.org.uk\/media\/4704\/decision-explained-ospemifene-senshio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved Ospemifene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Never think that your voice doesn\u2019t count, this proves that it can.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the decision in full by following this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicines.org.uk\/media\/4704\/decision-explained-ospemifene-senshio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ospemifene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4953\" src=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ospemifene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"1016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ospemifene.jpg 708w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ospemifene-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Result! Earlier this year I was contacted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium who asked if Menopause Support would make a submission to the committee explaining why they should approve Ospemifene, an oral drug for vaginal atrophy. After we did, the drug has been approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}