Musings Prompted by the NICE Guidelines

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a UK body that seeks to offer guidance to medical professionals with the aim to provide consistency and evidence-based care.

There has been lots of discussion around the DRAFT NICE Guidelines that were released last week. Sadly, it seems to have led to polarisation within the community of professionals working in the area of the menopausal transition. The primary discourse seems to pit MHT against psychological interventions such as CBT.