Bupa Health Clinics to provide menopause training for GPs

To upskill a fifth of GPs

Adam Saville
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Two-day course in menopause care and NICE guidelines and research from British Menopause Society

A significant portion of Bupa Health Clinic GPs will be upskilled by the British Menopause Society through a partnership which aims to bridge the UK menopause healthcare gap. Bupa said that while many of the 45,000 GPs in the UK are knowledgeable about the menopause, training in identifying and managing it is not a compulsory part of GP training and NICE guidelines on the health condition were only enacted in 2015.   In order to better equip GPs when facing patients, Bupa Health Clinics will train a fifth of its GP workforce, including those based in corporate Bupa onsite clinics at H...

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