RCN Position Statement on Menopause – RCN Women’s Health Forum

The Royal College of Nursing Women’s Health Forum has invited Debby Holloway, who is an RCN Fellow and Women’s Health Forum member, to lead a presentation and discussion on the subject of menopause at work, including our new RCN Position Statement on Menopause for Members. Debby will be joined by Wendy Madden, Nurse Menopause Lead and RCN Health and Safety Representative, and Sultana Bi, Advanced Nurse Practitioner.

The session will cover managing menopause at work, with signposting to resources, using a menopause passport in the workplace and bridging the gap in menopause care for minority-ethnic women.

If you would like to know more about menopause at work and how to support yourself and colleagues, please sign up and join us for a free 1 hour online seminar.

Debby Holloway was a Nurse Consultant in gynaecology at Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and has recently retired. She worked on women’s health for 36 years and was a nurse hysteroscopist, she is still a menopause specialist. Debby is a non-medical prescriber, a menopause specialist and a menopause trainer. She is the deputy module lead for the gynaecology nursing course at King’s College London and has published both books and articles in relation to women’s health.

Sultana Bi is a highly experienced primary care Advanced Nurse Practitioner, working in a busy inner city NHS practice. She has been involved in teaching on the MSc for Advanced Nursing Practice. She has an interest in women’s health and collaborated with researchers from Oxford University on research in menopause in ethnic minority women.

Wendy Madden is a Lead Nurse for Menopause, RCN Health and Safety Representative, Project Manager & creator of the Menopause Passport – University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). Prior to this post Wendy was a nurse for 18 years in the NHS. Wendy graduated from Birmingham City University School of Nursing in 2005 and worked as a nurse, a ward sister and as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in falls and fractures. At UHB, Wendy has been the chair for the Women’s Staff Network and is lead nurse for menopause. Recently, she joined the Strategic Project team, where she created the Menopause Passport.