'It's time to remove the negativity around HRT,' says expert leading Mid-West menopause clinic 

Cathy Casey, who works in a new menopause clinic in Nenagh, tells Health Correspondent Niamh Griffin how the hub operates and how hormone replacement therapy needs to be looked at with a positive lens

Dr Cathy Casey, consultant with UL Hospital Group, in Nenagh Hospital. Picture: Brian Arthur

“You sit with the patient and listen above anything else. The one thing women want is that you listen to them.” 

So says the consultant leading the first menopause clinic to open outside of Dublin at Nenagh Hospital in Tipperary. Among those attending are women in their 60s who are getting help with their menopause symptoms for the first time.