The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has pulled its support for a menopause conference for doctors that features global women’s health influencers, some of whose claims about hormone therapies have come under fire.
The college said the So Hot Right Now conference, whose headline speaker is high-profile British GP Louise Newson, was no longer deemed eligible to be credited as professional development for GPs who are college members.
Dr Sarah White from Jean Hailes for Women’s Health is among the Australian experts warning menopause influencers are making claims about the powers of novel hormone treatment that are not supported by data. Credit: Wayne Taylor
The conference is scheduled for March 2 at Sydney’s Hyatt Regency hotel. A general admission symposium, So Hot Right Now – Redefining Menopause, will be held the day before at the Sydney Opera House, with tickets ranging from $119 to $350. That event is being marketed as featuring world leaders in women’s health “alongside Australia’s foremost experts”.
It features Newson – a popular Instagrammer who presented to the Senate’s 2024 inquiry into menopause – and fellow celebrity menopause doctor Mary Claire Haver.
Newson lost British Menopause Society registration as a menopause specialist late last year after the BBC’s Panorama program investigated women’s physical and mental health issues that they said arose from hormone prescription at her clinics.
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An inquiry into “information of concern” about the Newson Health clinics was launched by the UK’s health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, after the program aired.
Haver is an American obstetrician and gynaecologist who created and sells menopause supplements under the brand The ’Pause Life. She has a combin
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