{"id":5641,"date":"2019-10-17T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:32:28","slug":"one-year-on-makemenopausematter-has-been-a-fantastic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"One year on #MakeMenopauseMatter has been a fantastic success"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"\"<\/a> When Menopause Support founder Diane Danzebrink went to Westminster to ask MPs to support her fledgling #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign she could have had no idea how the movement would grow in just a few short months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now, as we approach twelve months since the campaign first hit the headlines from the heart of UK Government, one of the three main aims of the movement has been achieved, with significant progress\u00a0seen\u00a0on the other two.<\/p>\n

#MakeMenopauseMatter\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0online petition has well over 33,000 signatures at time of writing and urges Women and Equalities Minister, Liz Truss\u00a0to\u00a0ensure GPs receive mandatory menopause education<\/strong>\u00a0during their training,\u00a0better support for women<\/strong>\u00a0in the workplace, and to\u00a0make menopause education and awareness a priority for our young people\u00a0<\/strong>in the new RSE curriculum.<\/p>\n

The campaign was launched in Westminster with the help\u00a0of\u00a0shadow minister for women and equalities, Carolyn Harris, on World Menopause Day in October 2018.\u00a0The number of signatures at its online Change.Org<\/em><\/strong> page reached 5,000 in just the first six days.<\/p>\n

MPs Rachel Maclean and Paula Sherriff were swift to support the campaign, with Rachel raising the subject on the floor of the house, and a large number of cross party MPs, including men, offering their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew many women were suffering in silence before we started the campaign, but it became clear very early on how much of a nerve our campaign had touched \u2013 and we literally opened the floodgates to hear stories and experiences from women all over the country\u201d Diane said this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As well as hearing from individual sufferers, Diane started to receive invitations from organisations to help them improve their menopause awareness and to deliver training.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the media were quick to cover the growing popularity of the campaign, and Diane has been a guest\u00a0on This Morning, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, ITV News, Sky News, Lorraine, Women\u2019s Hour, Victoria Derbyshire and more to talk about her own experiences of menopause, her work and the campaign. She has also beaten a path to the doors of a great number of local radio stations for phone-ins and to offer advice.<\/p>\n

Diane has written for the Telegraph and the Guardian and the campaign has received coverage in the Daily Mail and a number of other national newspapers.<\/p>\n

The campaign has also been featured in shout-outs from distinguished health and wellbeing experts such as Liz Earle.<\/p>\n

News that one of the three main aims of the campaign had been achieved<\/strong>\u00a0came in July 2019, when\u00a0Health Minister Damien Hinds confirmed that following a request from MP Rachel Maclean, young people will be taught about menopause as well as periods and pregnancy in UK secondary schools.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0minister said:\u00a0\u201cWe agree that this topic is an important part of reproductive health, and that all children should learn about this at school\u201d.<\/p>\n

The campaign aim that there should be more recognition of menopausal women in the workplace has found its mark with\u00a0organisations\u00a0that\u00a0are reviewing, implementing or changing policies on the subject.<\/p>\n

And we will be keeping pressure on the health establishment to ensure doctors receive formal training on the subject during their training.<\/p>\n

One year on the campaign has been a fantastic success. But we want the momentum to continue, to fulfil our remaining two aims and to spread the message to everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Diane Danzebrink went to Westminster to ask MPs to support her fledgling #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign she could have had no idea how the movement would grow in just a few short months. And now, as we approach twelve months since the campaign first hit the headlines from the heart of UK Government, one of the three main aims of the movement has been achieved, with significant progress\u00a0seen\u00a0on the other two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","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=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}