A NEW clinic, aimed at improving menopause care for women with complex menopausal symptoms, is on the way for Limerick.
The National Maternity Hospital in Dublin has just opened a specialist Complex Menopause Clinic, supported by funding from the Department of Health and HSE’s National Women and Infants Health Programme.
The service is dedicated to helping patients with serious medical conditions to manage their menopausal symptoms.
The Clinic is the first of four publicly funded specialist Menopause Clinics in Ireland and is staffed by GP Menopause Specialists, a full-time Nurse Specialist and an administrative team.
At the opening, a commitment was given for three more such clinics in Limerick, Cork and Galway to complement the menopause support available to women in their community.
The three new menopause clinics being established in 2022 will be part of the maternity networks including the University of Limerick Hospitals Group.
The HSE has advised that negotiations with the maternity networks have been underway since December, and it is expected that the specific funding allocation letters to support these three clinics will issue shortly.
It is also anticipated that the exact location of the clinics within each of the maternity networks will also be finalised shortly
