In a BBC Panorama documentary, which aired last Monday, Dr Louise Newson, who runs eight menopause clinics across the country, was alleged to have risked harming patients by prescribing HRT at too high a dosage. The licensed maximum is 100 micrograms, delivered via oestrogen patches, but Newson’s clinic prescribed up to 300mcg.
However, the accusations also sparked a backlash, with the television presenter and menopause campaigner Davina McCall saying the programme represented a “step backwards’. On Saturday, Alison Perry, a patient at one of Newson’s clinics defended the doctor as “somebody who has really stuck her neck out to help women”.
This row has revealed a rift in the medical profession about the best way to use HRT
However, the accusations also sparked a backlash, with the television presenter and menopause campaigner Davina McCall saying the programme represented a “step backwards’. On Saturday, Alison Perry, a patient at one of Newson’s clinics defended the doctor as “somebody who has really stuck her neck out to help women”.
This row has revealed a rift in the medical profession about the best way to use HRT
