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Human Resources

Resources and Guidance

Here you can find the Menopause Policy and related guidance as well as resources and support available at Sussex and external organisations

Sussex's Menopause Policy   

Resources available at Sussex:

Occupational Health

Workplace Adjustment Toolkit This toolkit provides more guidance on workplace adjustments, how to arrange, review and change them and signposts staff and managers to sources of information and guidance:

IGLOO guidance for returning to work

Staff Wellbeing Hub

Mental Health First Aiders

Factsheets

These factshees have been created by Balance and Peppy to help generate awareness:

Testosterone   

A Guide to Menopause After Breast Cancer

HRT: the Basics

Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Booklet

Living Well Through your Per-Menopause and Menopause

Menopause and Relationships: a Guide for Partners 

HRT FAQs [PDF 542.31KB] 

 

External resources:

Dr Olivia Hum is a local GP in Lewes and one of a small number of British Menopause Society recognised menopause specialists. She believes in holistic care, which looks at not only the physical, but also the psychological ways in which symptoms can affect you. Her website is available .

The Quaker Chaplain at Sussex, Jason Evans, is also a hypnotherapist and can help privately with a range of issues, including help with some of the symptoms of Menopause. See his web page '' for more information.    

 – Dr Louise Newson (formally the menopausedoctor) aims to empower people to have knowledge and confidence to approach their own GP for help.

. Jo is Menopause and Menstruation Coach and Educator.The Merry Menopause Bookclub

 - TED talk by neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi 

 

 

 

Wider Initiatives and Government Policy

The Women and Equalities Select Committee published its report on '' in July 2022. The  was published on 24 January 2023.

sets out the Government’s ambitions for improving the health and wellbeing of women and girls in England based on the life course approach, and resetting how the health and care system listens to women