Internal Reference Number: FOI_9263
Date Request Received: 03/03/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 27/03/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Menopause鈥慉fter鈥慍ancer Counselling Provision
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide details of all menopause services currently available at your trust for patients experiencing treatment鈥慽nduced or cancer鈥憆elated menopause. Please include service names, whether they are cancer鈥憇pecific, and any referral pathways. | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust have 3 clinicians who regularly run a Menopause clinic. The Trust (Menopause Clinic) receive patients referred internally from Clinical Nurse Specialist ( CNS). The Trust (Menopause Clinic) receive referrals from GPs when patients have historical cancers. Some referrals are directly to the operating surgeon from the GP bypassing Menopause clinic. Many of our cancer referrals, from within the Trust come from different departments such as head and neck. The Trust (Menopause Clinic) also receive referrals from our Oncology department. The Trust (Menopause Clinic) receive referrals from outside of the Trust and cover most of the South West as well as further afield. SFT also refer on to Poole (and historically Chelsea and Westminster) if we have absorption issues for implants also To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13579 - FOI_9263 - Menopause鈥慉fter鈥慍ancer Counselling Provision v2.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Please provide the number of patients referred to menopause services for cancer鈥憆elated or treatment鈥慽nduced menopause for the last five financial years (2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26). | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see Q1 response | |
| Question Number 3: Please provide the number of patients who attended these services following referral, for the same years. If available, include first appointments, follow鈥憉ps. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see Q1 response | |
| Question Number 4: Please provide the average and longest waiting times for access to menopause services for oncology patients for each of the last five financial years. | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see Q1 response | |
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