Menopause

Last updated: September 2025

Evidence-based resources

• UpToDate: Menopause: Clinical features and diagnosis (Updated September 2025)
• BMJ Best Practice: Menopause (Updated December 2024)
• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Menopause (Updated July 2025)
• NICE Guidance: Menopause
  • Menopause: identification and management (Updated November 2024)
• Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews
• NHS: Menopause

Menopause and the workplace

• Information and guidance for East Cheshire NHS Trust staff (sign in to ConnECT with your NHS mail username and password)
• NHS Employers: Menopause and the workplace (Published October 2024)
• Acas: Managing the menopause at work (Updated November 2024)
• Unison: The menopause is a workplace issue: guidance and model policy (Published February 2025)
• Royal College of Physicians: Guidance on menopause and the workplace

Further resources

• The British Menopause Society
• National Autistic Society: Autism and menopause guide
• BBC Radio 4: The Menopause series
• Balance: Menopause is inevitable – how you handle it isn’t
• Women’s Health Concern: The menopause guides
• Chartered Insitute of Professional Development (CIPD): Menopause – the Ultimate Taboo (Podcast)