Best practice guidance for ensuring more women receive a timely, accurate diagnosis and effective treatments via post-menopausal bleeding clinics is now available to gynaecology teams.
GIRFT has developed a supplementary guide focusing on optimising PMB clinics, to be used alongside the British Menopausal Society’s recent joint guideline on the management of unscheduled bleeding on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the accompanying GIRFT summary guide, Management of unscheduled bleeding on HRT.
The new supplementary guide outlines best practice for the provision of clinics, including the evidence-based protocols and multidisciplinary collaboration that can help to ensure women receive a comprehensive assessment, the information they need to make an informed decision about their treatment and management, and psychological support.
The guide offers examples of best practice from trusts across England, including a consultant-led clinic at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWAFT) which has been redesigned in response to increased demand, and an example of the role of the clinical nurse specialist team at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) in breaking bad news following a cancer diagnosis.
