Your thoughts are needed! Scoping document published - NICE Guideline for Menopause:diagnosis and managment

NICE guideline on Menopause: diagnosis and management

The draft scope for this NICE guideline is now out for consultation and we are registered as a Stakeholder for the review.

This means we would like to collate and submit your comments on the Scoping document (and the Equality Impact Assessment if you so wish) directly to NICE.

This is a valuable opportunity to ensure that the scoping considers issues important to us and the people we represent in our individual menopause spaces so it would be amazing to get as many perspectives as possible!

We are all super busy menopause champions, activists, researchers, health workers, trainers etc, so we’ve tried to make it easy to contribute.
Here are a few ways you can do so, and even if just a few words

1. Directly onto the PDF on the link HERE

2. Via the Comments Form and then email this to us

3. Directly in a reply to info@menopausecollective.org

4. Send in a voice note or video of your comments specifying the line number you’re commenting on

(If you chose option 3 or 4 please specify the LINE Number you’re commenting on in the Scoping document so I can track comments in the submission.)

We would love to hear from you by 1st March 2022

Scoping Documents

Equality Impact Assessment
Draft Scope
Comments Form

Things to think about in your responses

Does the scope:

1. Cover issues important for people affected by the guidelines?

2. Include medicines, procedures and other treatments or options for care that may be important?

3. Include treatments or other interventions that are currently used, but may not be effective, acceptable or tolerable to people using services?

4. Note any equality issues or aspects of care or services that the guideline should address (for example, cultural differences that may affect the use of an intervention or approach to care)?

5. Promote equality of opportunity regardless of age, disability, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status?

6. Unfairly exclude any groups (for example, by age or general health)?

7. Use wording that is respectful of people using services, carers and people working in health or social care?

8. Explain how the guideline will fit with government policies?

9. Identify other major related projects (such as promotional campaigns) that should be used when developing the guideline.

What next?

If you respond by 5pm on 1st march 2022

We'll compile all your comments in one submission to NICE and individual submissions won’t be stored once the report has been compiled so please arrange for your own copy of your comments to be saved if this is important to you.

You may still be able to register as your own organisation if that’s preferred – the info is on the NICE weblink above.

Please contact directly with any questions

Thanks in advance for your contributions!

Thank you for all your support to get menopause in the margins brought back to the centre of conversations!

We look forward to hearing from you!