The menopause is the new black. Midlife women's health is suddenly in the spotlight — even royalty joined in, as Sophie, Countess of Wessex, spoke of it being a 'shackle' last week — and GPs are under pressure.
The subject went viral the night Davina McCall's documentary Sex, Myths And The Menopause, a programme I devised and wrote, aired on Channel 4, and the presenter was startlingly honest about her own menopause, admitting she'd been told not to talk about her hot flushes and brain fog as it was 'a bit unsavoury'. The film revealed that many women were being turned away without medical help, as #davinamenopause trended on Twitter.