The British Menopause Society (BMS), established in 1989, educates, informs and guides healthcare professionals in all aspects of post reproductive health. This is achieved through an annual programme of lectures, conferences, meetings, exhibitions and our interactive website. We offer a range of publications including our quarterly journal Post Reproductive Health and the definitive handbook Management of the Menopause.
Bioidentical HRT
The full BMS Consensus Statement on Bioidentical HRT is available to non-Members for a limited time only.
Education programme overview
Menopause Special Skills Module
27 February 2020 - 28 February 2020
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Menopause Symptoms
19 March 2020 - 20 March 2020
Women’s Health Meeting
22 April 2020
17th World Congress on Menopause
30 April 2020 - 3 May 2020
'Beyond Cancer - Living with an induced menopause' Study day for nurses
18 May 2020
Northern Professional Development Conference
18 May 2020 - 20 May 2020
Menopause Special Skills Module
11 June 2020 - 12 June 2020
Menopause – The Foundations
15 June 2020 - 16 June 2020
BMS Menopause Café: Pre-conference workshop for registered healthcare professionals
1 July 2020
BMS 30th Annual Scientific Conference
2 July 2020 - 3 July 2020
Scottish Women’s Health Meeting
9 September 2020
Women’s Health Meeting
17 September 2020
Latest news
- Availability of menopausal hormone therapy products worldwide
- 19 February 2020
- The menopause transition can have a significant impact on many women, with more than 75 % experiencing menopausal symptoms, and a quarter describing severe symptoms.
- RCOG, BMS, FSRH statement on HRT and contraceptive supply
- 7 February 2020
- The RCOG, BMS and FSRH have issued a press release regarding the HRT and contraceptive shortages.
- Concerns over new 'menopause delay' procedure
- 28 January 2020
- Melanie Davies, chair of Fertility Preservation UK and BMS medical advisory council member raises concern over a new medical procedure that claims to allow women to delay the onset of the menopause by over a decade.
- British Menopause Society further update on HRT supply shortages (27th January 2020)
- 28 January 2020
- The British Menopause Society has issued this further update on the current availability of HRT products to provide guidance to BMS members and clinical practitioners in response to the ongoing HRT shortages.
Conference and meeting reports
The BMS 29th Annual Scientific Conference
This year’s conference, entitled “An integrated approach to menopausal care”, was held at Chesford Grange, Kenilworth on 4 & 5 July 2019.
Our patient arm
Women’s Health Concern (WHC) was founded in 1979 and became the patient arm of the BMS in 2012. It provides an independent service to advise, reassure and educate women of all ages about their gynaecological and sexual health, wellbeing and lifestyle concerns.
Information for non-professionals can also be found at Menopause Matters.
Affiliations
The British Menopause Society is a specialist society affiliated to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. Working together we have developed theoretical and practical training modules aimed at those healthcare professionals who regularly work in the field of women’s health.
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