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Dr Radhika Vohra GP with 20+ years experience Based in Surrey
Specialises in:
General Practice, Women’s Health, Menopause, Adolescent Health, Contraception, Coils, and Implants
Qualifications and Accreditations:
MbChB, BMedSci, MRCGP Dist (2005), DFFP FRT, DCH
Qualified at University of Birmingham UK, GMC registered, Diplomate of Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Health, Member of British Menopause Society, Associate Member of International Menopause Society.
Speaker and Educator
Over 15 years experience
Mum of two teenagers
Realistic understanding of juggling life!
INTRODUCTION
Providing online access to Primary Care information including women's health.
Find out more about Dr Radhika Vohra and her work.
Dr Radhika Vohra is an evidence based prescriber, specialising in practising holistic medicine.
Lifestyle Medicine
Her approach is based on individual holistic care for the patient.
Evidence Based Prescriber
An advocate for good medical practice guidelines
Ever feel like your brain is ‘buffering’? 🔄 Just processing slower… not sharp…
There is a midlife biological reason that may explain this.
Oestrogen is a key regulator of glucose metabolism in the brain. As levels drop during perimenopause, there is reduced glucose uptake and metabolism in key brain areas. Even more so, post menopause.
This creates a temporary ‘Energy Gap.’ It’s why you might feel:
• Brain fog that won’t lift
• Memory lapses
• Sudden ‘word-finding’ difficulties
The good news? 🧠 Your brain is incredibly resilient, it remodels and switches to cope with alternative fuels sources.
You may be thinking, how can we best optimise our brain health? 👇
• recognise the midlife vulnerability of the menopause transition and improve awareness and education.
• consider hormone therapy as a way of rebalancing oestrogen loss
• be lifestyle aware - a plant reach diet, exercise, good sleep and stress reduction are crucial.
• recognise menopause as a critical renovation period for your brain and this helps make informed choices of what your options are.
(If things really concern you - get a medical assessment as it can be other causes)
What small change or action can you make? For more info check out @dr_mosconi book The Menopausal Brain.
#brainfog #menopausebrain #lifestyle #hrt #womenshealth
Reflecting on 2025, of course I can think of many HIGHS & LOWS, overall I am reminded of ONE thing for midlife:
🫥You are not ‘losing yourself’
🦺You are ‘evolving’
This year, I’ve sat with so many who felt silenced or overwhelmed by menopause. To every woman who advocated for her health, started a new treatment, or simply found the courage to say ‘I don’t feel like myself’… I see you.
As we head into 2026, my mission remains the same: to ensure you have the evidence-based tools to thrive as well as survive. Thanks to all those who do similar in this noisy world.
Your hormones may be changing, but your power isn’t going anywhere ✨
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
What are you upto? I’m celebrating with loved ones but may well not drink much and go to bed if that’s what I need. Listening to my body and needs is #selfcare . So, ensure you give your need some attention.
Wishing you a wonderful time however you choose to spend it and thanks for the support this year 🫂
#menopause #womenshealth #doctor #educator
Christmas is the time for gifting and for ME books are a wonderful gift to give and receive. They carry so much potential and give so much! Currently, there is a wealth of #womenshealth and #menopause related #books and I’ve prepped several for my dearest.
🤔 Sure I have missed some… Which would you like to receive? Intrigued to see who I will be adding to shelf in 2026???
Women are incredible, let’s celebrate with knowledge and empowerment 🫂 🎁 #womenshealthmatters #gifting
Fantastic to see @drbillbones and @menoscandal for lunch and to talk through the wins and perils of 2025 and the plans for 2026; From writing to lifestyle change and personal goals - to failures and gains in the menopause world. We’ve talked about so much 💬
Midlife really is a prime opportunity to do things differently, and invest in your health, don’t you agree? For example, we talked about lifting weights, cold water swimming and running to eating well, less alcohol and more sleep!
It’s such a privilege to meet some incredible people through the much needed work in menopause care as not only does it make it rewarding but it’s also great company. Thank you both 🫂
#menopause #menopausematters #midlifegoals #midlifechanges
#lifestylechange #perimenopause
Such a honour to be asked to give the lunchtime symposium at @cosrh_uk Annual Conference. I spoke about Cultural Inequalities on a systemic and individual level in Contraception. There are challenges of funding cuts, fragmented patient pathways, access issues and biases. Alongside this we have increasing numbers of terminations with abortions at the highest recorded level since introduction of the Abortion Act, increasing use of non hormonal and natural methods and a change in how society wants to access information with social media use and misinformation. To make contraception equally accessible we have to be alert, holistic and patient centred. Resources such a language translated materials were shared with evidence of biases in ethnic and lower socioeconomic groups.
All this is 35 minutes to a room of experts and passionate clinicians in the field was nerve wrecking!? Really grateful for some incredible feedback from current and ex President of @cosrh_uk . I feel motivated to keep doing the work to raise awareness and educate 🧡 #womenshealthmatters #sexualhealth #reproductivehealth #contraception #womenshealth #portfoliogp #educator
#understandingmenopause talk @rsmprepschool today as part of increasing awareness as Medical Trustee to @themenocharity . Brilliant to hear how informative they found why menopause #matters, what #lifestyle changes can help and the role #hormonetherapy can have in short term and long term health.
📝 Approx 75% of teaching staff are female, roughly 57% fall into the 40–60 year bracket and ~2% work beyond 60. 📝 1 in 4 women consider leaving; 1 in 10 actually leave due to menopause.
We have to prepare earlier to look after our teaching staff so they can look after our coming generations.
We talked about how hard #midlife can feel in terms of #selfcare and even with awareness, often with timing restrictions, health #access issues and social #stigma, seeking help can be often difficult. Wouldn’t it be great to see more events like this? Glad to have had this opportunity to #giveback today.
#thankyouteachers
#menopauseinworkplace #menopause #womenshealth #midlife #teachers #school #makemenopausematter
#menopause UnderstandingMenopause talk today representing @themenocharity at @akdn Women’s Health Event.
For many of us, it’s the invisible 🫥 symptoms of menopause that are most debilitating. I shared my journey with #perimenopause #anxiety . Have you felt this? I hear you. Join the dots, complete a symptom tracker, write your questions and seek support.
@themenocharity we #inform , #educate and #represent to combat shame and taboo in menopause. It was a pleasure to be welcomed into the Aga Khan Ismaili Community at Jamatkhana Hounslow and thank you @hoodadoc and ashifatrivedi for organising and inviting me.
#menopause #womenshealth #perimenopause #hrt #hormonehealth #womenshealthmatters #bonehealth #midlife #menopauseawareness #menopausesupport #theismailiuk
Brilliant interactions today with a national group of primary care healthcare practitioners regarding the management of complex Menopause including diabetes. Did you know that the NICE Diabetes guidelines does not mention Menopause and the NICE Menopause guidelines do not mention Type 1 diabetes?
There is an enormous gap in guiding and supporting those with diabetes when experiencing menopause. But we know this is incredibly important due to the fact that fluctuations in oestrogen and progesterone alter the cellular response to insulin which leads to unexpected spikes and falls in the blood sugar and makes diabetic control tricky. Alongside this, you get slowing of the metabolism, central fat red distribution and weight gain which increases insulin resistance.
My plea to the health professionals today is to recognise diabetes and Menopause are interconnected. One affects the control of the other.
As a patient you can track your cycle and symptoms and seek help. As a healthcare professional it’s important to recognise there’s limited evidence to work with but do offer a symptom Tracker and education particularly at diabetic reviews and it’s important to recognise that evidence supports hormonal replacement therapy should not be avoided in women with diabetes. Using HRT reduces the incident of diabetes after menopause, improves blood sugar (HbA1c levels) and increases insulin sensitivity.
We need to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes when experiencing menopause.
#diabetes #menopause #womenshealth #complexmenopause
@davinamccall shared she has been diagnosed with #breastcancer . I am so sorry to hear this but her bravely sharing this is a red flag to all regarding the importance of:
#selfexamination
#breastscreening with #mammogram
#riskreducinglifestylechoices
#selfcare
CAPTION CORRECTION! Breast cancer affects 1 in 7 women!
I wish Davina a smooth treatment journey and the privacy to self care through this. She gives us a crucial opportunity to promote how important self examination, screening and seeking help is 🌟 #breastcancerawareness #breastcancersupport #selfcheck
#feedback is such a motivator to improvement and continuing to do what is evidence based medicine. This patients experience of a #coil fitting makes me glad to be a #trainer, offer a variety of #analgesia (coils should not be fitted without any pain relief being offered in this day and age) and look after my patients.
I hear of many who have terrible experiences with coil procedure, so please be empowered:
#choice
#painrelief
#aftercare
should be offered and can ask if not. I wish all could have a similar outcome.
#intrauterinecoil #contraception #coppercoil #progesteronecoil #coilfitting #sexualhealth #reproductivehealth
Today I had the opportunity of presenting to the Metabolic Bone Health team at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust to speak to them about how important hormone replacement therapy is for those with bone loss and risk factors such as #surgicalmenopause , #prematureovarianinsufficiency and #menopause . I shared our data on how few are on #hrt before fracture and even fewer are on it after fracture. This is data from 7 years of #fractureliasionservice .
From a tour of the department, to seeing a DEXA scan in action, ending with speaking to the radiographers and finishing with editting the reporting templates for DEXAs. It was a whirlwind of a day 😃
It’s staggering to think that despite the data that we have, there is no ring fenced funding for fracture liaison services and not all areas have them. This is a real disservice and needs to improve.
What we hope is that our work will be a starting point that for low to moderate risk female patients between the age of 45 to 60 the DEXA scan report will now highlight that hormone replacement therapy needs to be considered as an individualised first choice treatment once the risks and benefits have been balanced. This is currently not the case.
I’m excited to see how this work develops and we will continue to audit our outcomes. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if other trust followed suit and we could cascade this?
What’s been your experience of waiting for a DEXA scan appointment?
Are you aware if your area has a fracture liaison service available?
I think it’s without question that with an aging population and knowing the impact of mid age fracture has on independence and mobility that all areas should be funded to have the Services. Here we are building on this evidence @menoscandal @drbillbones
#bonehealth
#osteopenia #frax #osteoporosis #osteoporosisawareness #osteoporosisprevention #bones #musculoskeletalsyndromeofmenopause #menopause #menopauseboneloss
It was an honour to contribute my perspective as a GP & Trustee of @themenocharity to the vital NIHR Women GPs Thrive project.
General Practice is facing a major challenge. In the context of primary care, there is a colossal workload that often feels like we are firefighting on a daily basis. For women in particular, this is compounded by the pressures on them at home, hormonally and work. This makes it complex to achieve true equality and satisfaction.
“There is a colossal workload that feels like you’re firefighting on a daily basis.”
This is why the work led by @ruth_abrams_ @uniofsurrey and the whole team is so crucial. We must stop just managing the crisis and start investigating the conditions in which we can truly thrive.
I look forward to seeing the outcomes of this research, which aims to provide actionable, policy-oriented statements to improve the working lives of women in general practice.
Want to learn more or get involved?
* Read the full newsletter
* Join the launch webinar to discuss project findings (contact Victoria at [email protected])
Let’s work together to create a sustainable and equitable future for all GPs so we can continue to look after patients.
#WomenGPsThrive #NIHR #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #NHS #TheMenopauseCharity #WorkloadCrisis #HealthcareResearch #GPWellbeing
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