When Women Speak,
Medicine Listens
The Balance Project & RCSI
Helping shape the future of menopause care in Ireland.
Your Experience
Matters
We believe every woman’s experience holds the power to improve healthcare for future generations
Shaping Better
Education
Together with RCSI and Project CHIME, we’re ensuring menopause is taught with understanding, accuracy, and compassion.
Stronger Care,
Better Outcomes
Better education today means better recognition, support, and care for women tomorrow.
Community
Driven
Our community is the bridge between lived experience and meaningful change.
About Project CHIME
Project CHIME (Creating Holistic & Inclusive Menopause Education) is an initiative led by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).
The project aims to ensure that future healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge and understanding they need to support women through perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause.
To make this happen, Project CHIME is gathering real stories from women, because a curriculum built on lived experience creates better healthcare.
A curriculum can't be built
from theory alone.
It needs the truth of what women actually go through.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you’ve experienced perimenopause, menopause or post-menopause, your story can directly shape the education of future healthcare professionals. You can do this by:
1.
Click this link to complete the RCSI Project CHIME questionnaire - this information is supplied directly to the RCSI and is totally private and confidential.
2.
Scan the QR code on the image and follow the instructions to send in your story.
3.
Contact Project CHIME directly at CHIME@rcsi.com
Why This Matters
Far Beyond One Curriculum
The challenge isn’t just menopause.
It’s decades of underfunding, under-research, and under-education in women’s health.
This had led to many healthcare professionals without the tools they need to help women.
5%
of global health research funding focuses on female-specific health.
1%
of funding is directed towards menopause research.
7%
of healthcare research focuses exclusively on women’s conditions.
5%
of clinical trials report results separately for women and men.
This means for huge swathes of medicine, we simply don't reliably know whether treatments work the same way in women's bodies as they do in men's.
This Gap Follows Women All The Way Through
Research
Women’s health receives limited funding.
Medical Education
Menopause has historically received little attention in medical training.
Healthcare
Many clinicians entered practice with little formal menopause education.
Women
Women feel unheard, misunderstood, and left searching for answers.
IRELAND TODAY
90%
of menopause care happens in General Practice.
Yet structured menopause education for GP’s has only recently become widely available.
A recent scoping review out of UCC, published this year, confirmed what women have been saying for years: menopause education for healthcare professionals in Ireland "remains limited and inconsistently embedded" across the system.
It's not that doctors don't care, one Irish GP and women's health advocate described it as "decades of neglect" of this stage of women's lives, not a lack of willingness to help.
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