The new group will take in broader issues around menopause rights, entitlements and education which will be explored in greater detail as the APPG on the Menopause develops.

Improving menopause education, care and support for all women is vital, far too many continue to needlessly suffer in silence and this has to stop.

For far too long, generation after generation of women have been let down, ignored or simply thrown on the scrap heap as a result of the menopause.

Despite affecting more than half of the world’s population, menopause remains one of the last great taboos – badly funded and rarely discussed in public. It is also poorly understood: in the workplace, in society at large and far too often, even in the doctor’s surgery.

The new APPLG for Menopause will look to change that.