Louise Newson

Editorially reviewed by Prof. Georgie Kodze, M.D., MPH, Ph.D., GMJ News Desk.

Dr. Louise Newson, a high-profile general practitioner who operates a network of private menopause clinics, has been denied permission to seek judicial review of her expulsion from the British Menopause Society , according to a judgment issued by the High Court in 2026.

Despite recognizing serious procedural failures, Judge Jonathan Moffett Casey ruled that the BMS, as a voluntary professional organization operating under contractual authority rather than statute, falls outside the scope of judicial review.

Key takeaways, Dr. Newsom's legal challenge to her BMS expulsion was rejected on jurisdictional grounds, not on the merits of the case.

Whether through statutory reform, professional consensus building, or alternative dispute resolution, the gap between acknowledged unfairness and available remedies may eventually prompt systemic change.

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Source controversial GP Louise Newson loses high court bid over expulsion from British Menopause Society, the BMJ.

at the forefront of changing all of that.

Professor Mary Ryan and Dr. Louise Newson, internationally recognized menopause specialist, author, podcaster, and passionate advocate for women's health.

We're going to explore everything from our first periods to menopause, separate fact from fiction.

And most importantly, help women understand what's actually happening in their bodies.

So just Louise, before we move on from this and talk maybe about a PMOS and endometriosis really, if there was a mother listening now or even a teenage girl listening and they feel completely different those few days just coming up to their period, what advice would you give them now? What should they be looking out for? And most importantly, how can they seek out help and actually combat

this? Absolutely.

I mean, I think empower yourself so there's a lot of resources if you go to my website dr for dr louise newson.co.uk and put in pms pmdd in the search there's a lot of articles there's podcasts that i've done there's youtubes that i've done where people can just learn because so often just sitting and listening to other people's experience my daughter jess has pmdd she's done podcasts with me someone called jenny who's got a great sad story but she's done podcasts with me Listen, and if it resonates, then don't be put off by going to get help.

And you might need to see more than one doctor.

When I reference the lads, I call them the boys.

So then, um, Dr. Louise Newson, "Anyone you know that could help me on YouTube?" I was like, "I'll put you in touch with the boys." And then TJ Power, "Anyone you can help with?" "Put you in touch with the boys." But I'm thinking we actually need to try and circle this off as an offering.

Now, we could pick an arbitrary number out of the air.

I actually don't know if we need to build anything for it, because a lot of the time people think you need to build a course, a backend, a membership.

So it's obviously talking about menopause, but we're talking about everything from periods right up to menopause.

I was so delighted, Dr Louise Newson is, is a really brilliant, um, uh, advocate on menopause, so I went over to speak at an event with, with Louise there last, uh, year, and I said to her, "Louise, any chance you'd be available ne- this year for 18th of the 12th?" And she said, "I will, I'd be delighted to come." So Louise is coming, and she's f- huge interest on p- uh, premenstrual syndrome, PMDD, where a lot of it is due to a deficiency in progesterone, as well as menopause, perimenopause, and she's a huge amount of research done.

So we're delighted to have Dr Louise Newson going to be speaking on the stage as a guest speaker.

But in addition to that, we've got Professor Janice Walsh, who's a consultant oncologist, who's going to talk about breast cancer risks, 'cause that's a big thing, you know.

A lot of patients don't realize that the newer agents are, are very, very safe when it comes to breast cancer, but Janice is going to be there to talk about, you know, the breast cancer risks in people where there's a family history.