Anne believes in offering her patients the full spectrum of treatments to help manage the perimenopause and menopause, including complementary therapies such as herbal medicine. She has worked closely with a medical herbalist in Kent for the last 20 years: this collaboration has been highly successful and forms an integral part of Anne’s clinical practice and educational seminars. She believes that the role of complementary therapies, particularly herbal medicine, is greatly under-recognised by many healthcare practitioners.
She is also involved in training and education and has organised numerous workshops and seminars for various public and private sector employers. These include fire and rescue and police services nationwide and companies including Goldman Sachs and Unilever. Highlights of these workplace seminars include hosting the inaugural Kent Regional British Menopause Society Update Day in Kent, and keynote lectures to the National Police Menopause Action Group and the inaugural London Fire Brigade Menopause Seminar. Anne also has an extensive educational track record teaching fellow gynaecologists, GPs and Practice Nurses throughout the South East over the last two decades, and this remains a key part of her current practice.
Anne is the Medical Advisor to BRCA Kent, one of the largest support groups for BRCA patients in the UK. Along with the BRCA Kent team, she runs bi-annual multi-disciplinary education and update study days for BRCA carriers and medical practitioners throughout Kent and the surrounding areas and provides ongoing support and education to the group.
In addition to her clinical work, Anne also has a medico-legal practice: her interest in this area developed as a result of her experience as NHS Consultant Lead for Obstetric Risk. She finds this a sobering, but valuable, aspect of her varied timetable and believes it is vital that ongoing training, education and support is offered to the next generation of doctors and midwives in her speciality with the aim of consistently improving the quality of care. In keeping with her interest in medico-legal matters, Anne regularly lectures to lawyers and barristers as part of their CPD update training and is involved in the highly acclaimed 7 Bedford Row Chambers annual “Skeleton Series” of educational seminars.
Anne has published widely in the medical literature including peer-reviewed journals such as the BMJ, The Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. Her articles have also featured in the mainstream media including The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Times and Sunday Times and in various women’s magazines including Red, Women’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Refinery 29. Throughout her career she has been involved in broadcast media as well, having appeared on LBC, Radio 4, This Morning, Radio Kent, and Channel 5 discussing menopause-related matters.
Anne has acted as brand ambassador and medical advisor to various companies, including Bayer, Time Of The Month, TENA and Health & Her. She is currently collaborating with A Vogel, the highly renowned Swiss healthcare company, which complements her ongoing passion for herbal medicine. She also continues to collaborate with Bayer specifically on their women’s health range, including Canesten and related products.
Anne was commissioned by Dorling Kindersley to produce a comprehensive holistic guide to the menopause and her book, “Natural Menopause”, was published in March 2021. This book represents a collaboration between hand-picked experts and provides extensive advice for perimenopause, menopause and beyond including HRT, herbal medicine, nutrition, fitness and mental wellbeing. The book has received excellent reviews and acclaim from medical colleagues and patients following publication.
