Menopause Mandate is a group of motivated women from all walks of life who share a common interest in perimenopause and menopause. We are devoted to creating a coalition of campaigners to achieve everyone's ultimate goal of revolutionising the support and advice women receive from both our health service and wider society.
We are women, campaigners, politicians, menopause experts, celebrities and journalists with an ever-growing list of supporters.
Time for a hot girl walk?
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the very first MM Walk in the Park in Kensington Gardens - braving Storm Babet to stride out on a fabulous 2 or 5KM walk.
Carol Vorderman, Mariella Frostrup, Cherry Healey and MPs including Carolyn Harris, plus menopause experts and campaigners, gathered to celebrate World Menopause Day for a fantastic afternoon of support, friendship and story sharing.
Introducing the MM podcast:
THE HEAT SEAT
New podcast The Heat Seat, which launches on the 5th October, brings together the patrons, experts and ambassadors behind the fantastic campaign that is Menopause Mandate.
From menstruation, fertility and menopause the podcast explores how women, such as Mariella Frostrup, Lisa Snowdon and Emma Kennedy dealt with the lows that life has thrown, gained their female health knowledge, and found the path to the influential roles they’re now in.
The next target! MM40+
We’re demanding that peri/menopause be included in the NHS over 40s health check in order that women are made aware of it.
It seems beyond short-sighted not to mention the subject at this time, when many women are already experiencing symptoms and others are on the cusp of doing so.
The effects of ignorance are incredibly damaging and, as we know, can lead to years of suffering, job loss, broken relationships, and worse.
Help yourself.
Help your healthcare professional.
Help yourself and help your healthcare professional. Listing and tracking your menopause symptoms can be extremely useful, and we recommend filling jn the Greene Climacteric Scale.
This simple-to-use list tracks 21 symptoms associated with menopause, from hot flushes to anxiety, mood changes and aches and pains. Add in others that you might be experiencing. The four-part grading system can indicate whether your symptoms are worsening and help make decisions about your care.
Take it along to your GP or menopause nurse appointment.
Women need to be supported right now. Not after a consultation period, not after proposals have been kicked around for a year or more, not as a tick in the box and a pat on the head, and definitely not when a male-dominated government decides they might do something.
We are working for a change NOW.
The HOT 100!
To celebrate the introduction of the single prescription charge, we have created a Spotify playlist that reads as a story. The Menopause Mix: Hot 100 is an eclectic Spotify playlist of 100 song titles, including hits by Rod Stewart, Peter Gabriel, Adele, The Spice Girls and Jay-Z. Some you'll know, some are more...unusual. And when you read the 100 titles in order, the whole thing adds up to a clever and hilarious narrative of many of the dozens of symptoms that can hit during the menopause.
Be sure to listen and share!
Celebrating our first birthday!
25th April 2023, Houses of Parliament
This time last year we had our inaugural gathering at the Houses of Parliament. Since then, we’ve gained thousands of supporters, launched a hotline, published a book and held a rally, as well as communicating widely on telly, radio, in the press and on social media about menopause.
On Tuesday 25th April we returned to the Houses of Parliament to celebrate our first birthday and share all the latest news…
It’s beyond a joke.
Tuesday October 18th.
What a day that was!
Against the backdrop of a beautiful blue-sky autumn day, the Menopause Mandate team and its amazing patrons, advocates, experts and fabulous supporters from around the country, descended on Parliament to make some noise and to keep menopause in the minds of our MPs and at the top of the media agenda.
Mariella Frostrup, Carol Vorderman, Lisa Snowdon, Penny Lancaster, Cherry Healey, Lavina Mehta, Michelle Griffith Robertson and Carolyn Harris MP all attended on this very important day - World Menopause Day - to inspire and influence anyone who might make a difference to the level of care and support offered to women in midlife.
A huge, huge, huge thank you to everyone for taking the time to come.
Together we are definitely stronger.
