What menopause support or healthcare cover does your workplace offer?

[catspyjamas1]

Hi all.
I started a new job at a scale-up and demographically, menopause isn't a topic in policies, initiatives etc. and my private health care excludes anything related to menopause. The most recent companies I worked at had specific policies and initiatives related to menopause. That includes one that got menopause friendly accreditation... as gimmicky as these things can be, it did lead to a proper policy and manager training, and a view to improve private health care coverage. I was closely involved in making language clear in all comms and policy... if you know what I mean! 😉

Its a topic for me! I am disappointed that my private healthcare excludes everything related to menopause because I want to see a specialist menopause consultant. Its also starting to impact a lot of things in my life.

What, if anything, is your workplace doing re menopause in your healthcare coverage and making sure that the company can accommodate needs for women at work?

Given my age vs the rest of the workforce, I'm not inclined to push for things right now on a policy or healthcare front, but I am curious about what others are seeing and experiencing at work?

I am also opted into Bupa Select via work. If there's better coverage I can pay for vs via work and this policy, please let me know.

We have menopause champions at my work. all of them are men though. genuinely 🙄

uh... there are words, or something. Some words (policy on paper) . Dunno what the words say, I don't care. Doesn't apply to my needs.

We don't have private health care coverage, to be specific on that.
What % of employees in Uk have private health care coverage, I wonder.

If my post doesn't apply or resonate with your needs, feel free to move along

Haha, had similar and had to point it out - not a good look!!

Nothing that I'm aware of.

I am 45

I take hrt

I would really appreciate if people like you would stop trying to undermine my credibility by presenting me as intrinsically in need of support

Health insurance excludes menopause btw because it costs a fucking fortune. The NHS will have to do the same before long (I firmly believe every woman over 45 should be on it either systemically or at least topically and the health service can't sustain that cost).

How am I undermining your credibility?!?

Please, read my post again tomorrow and chill...

The interesting part of this thread is,
(assuming I can trust anything I read on the Internet)
11.2% of the UK population have private health care insurance.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theryanhopkins_78-million-people-have-private-medical-insurance-activity-7431606922438668288-6d25/ 60% of people with private health care insurance get it thru their employment.
I guess that means OP started a thread applicable to about 3.5% of Uk population (I started by thinking 7%, but then took out the males).

PLUS, The majority of people in menopause are retired, though, so not getting healthcare thru a workplace.

So the percentage of people in menopause who also have private healthcare insurance thru their employer has got to be a fairly small constituency, and an especially small % of all people in menopause.

There's info here about which industries are most likely to offer private healthcare insurance; I didn't feel that these sectors as a group tended to be dominated by male or female workers.

I think there's a support group at my workplace. I've never been, though, can't really see the point

It's roughly 8 million with PMIhttps://www.healthprofessionalacademy.co.uk/news/record-number-of-people-in-uk-covered-by-private-medical-insurance#:~:text=Record%20number%20of%20people%20in%20UK%20covered

Extrapolated, assuming 52% are women, that's around 4.1 / 4.2 million covered.https://www.phin.org.uk/news/Who-are-our-patients

Relative to women working in the UK (ONS - 16.7 million), its around 1 in 4 with PMI.

So, its a fairly noteworthy group. No data on age group so its impossible to say the amount of women in work with menopause and access to PMI. Also worth noting that policies typically cover other gynaecology needs (e.g. cysts, fibroids etc.) as well.

Hi op.

I have PMI via DHs job and have always had it either myself through work or via him, since we graduated.

I am 48 and have been on HRT for three years. Haven't needed a 'meno consultant' (do you mean gynae?) as my GP was amazing and suggested HRT when I needed it. She also prescribed testosterone when I needed it.

What I did need was a private GP to inset a mirena coil in good time as part of my HRT. So I paid for that separately.

Private healthcare doesn't usually include something that is easily available in primary care and that is likely to require ongoing prescription support. Which is menopause.

You can see a GP. Look up what you want from menopause matters, ask GP to prescribe.