Service eligibility
We care for the following patients:
- women and gender-diverse people who are experiencing severe symptoms related to menopause, including those who have already been assessed and treated for these symptoms by a health-care provider without success
- those with medical conditions that might prevent them from using certain medications for symptoms related to menopause, such as hormone therapy.
- This includes people living with HIV, people with spinal cord injury, and people with premature menopause (spontaneous or iatrogenic) or primary ovarian insufficiency.
We do not provide basic menopause care which is available in the community, such as through a family doctor, nurse practitioner, urgent and primary care centre or a gynecologist in the community.
To be eligible to receive care at this clinic, you must meet each of the criteria listed in Section A and one or more of the criteria listed in Section B. However, this does not guarantee that your referral, sent by a health-care provider, will be accepted.
Each referral is carefully reviewed by a BC Women's Hospital health-care provider and is assessed on an individual basis.
We do not accept self-referrals from patients. Please speak to your care provider to be referred to this clinic for care.
- bothersome symptoms of menopause
- currently living in B.C.
- assigned female at birth
- contraindications or medical co-morbidities limiting management options
- premature menopause/primary ovarian insufficiency < age 40
- carrier of Hereditary Cancer Syndrome with increased risk of breast or gynecological cancer
- spinal cord injury
- human immunodeficiency virus
- cancer survivor whose therapy has affected ovarian function
- systemic menopausal symptoms (e.g., hot flushes, night sweats) that have not responded to usual management
- genital symptoms of menopause that have not responded to usual management, without vulvar dystrophy
