Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1897.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a specialist menopause clinic to be based in Cavan.[35671/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Specialist Complex Menopause Clinics accept referrals from GPs in the surrounding catchment and provide specialist medical advice and management to the following cohort of symptomatic women:

• Women whose treatment within primary care settings does not improve their menopausal symptoms,
• Women who are experiencing on-going troublesome or clinically significant side effects further to treatment within primary care setting e.g. bleeding
• Women who have contra-indications to HRT, and
• Women about whom there us uncertainty about the most suitable treatment option for their menopausal symptoms e.g. complex medical history.

Specifically, these clinics are located in the Coombe Hospital, the National Maternity Hospital, the Rotunda Hospital, Galway University Hospital, Cork University Maternity Hospital and Nenagh Hospital under the clinical governance of University Maternity Hospital Limerick.

The Specialist Menopause Clinic in the Rotunda Hospital serves the RCSI Maternity Network and there is currently no plan to open a second specialist clinic in the same network i.e. Cavan.