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 – The Foundations
27 January 2020 - 28 January 2020
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
Pre-conference Menopause Café of the BMS 30th Annual Scientific Conference
1 July 2020
BMS 30th Annual Scientific Conference
2 July 2020 - 3 July 2020
Scottish Women’s Health Meeting
9 September 2020
Latest news
- Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of breast cancer: How much should women worry about it?
- 23 January 2020
- A recent Lancet paper, updating the evidence on the association between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the risk of breast cancer made prominent headlines.
- Confusion over vaginal estrogen
- 22 January 2020
- Several types of vaginal estrogen are now available and can be extremely helpful for treatment of the effects of menopausal estrogen deficiency on the vagina and bladder.
- BMS TV: The Menopause Explained – Series 2
- 15 January 2020
- The British Menopause Society has produced a second series of seven short videos covering different aspects of the menopause.
- WHI randomised study long term follow up results – December 2019: HRT and breast cancer
- 30 December 2019
- Long-term influence of estrogen plus progestin and estrogen alone use on breast cancer incidence: The Women’s Health Initiative randomized trials. Chlebowski RT, Anderson GL, Aragaki
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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