Back in March we worked with Black History Walks to organise a fibroids awareness event at the University of Westminster. This was a very well-attended event with over 150 women attending. Our speakers provided an overview of fibroids and its treatment, and shared personal stories of the effect of fibroids.

During the event we were absolutely delighted to meet Yvonne Akande, Senior Project Manager at Transforming Outcomes and Health Economics Through Imaging –TOHETI. It was wonderful to learn of all the great work they’ve been doing to raise awareness of fibroids and support women who have been affected.

TOHETI is a three year Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity funded programme, working with NHS partners across Lambeth and Southwark to develop a vision of imaging with patient experience at its core. The programme has been working to understand how they can better join up services to treat fibroids to offer the best possible care to their patients.

In June 2015 they conducted a series of focus groups which helped identify how they could improve the information provided to patients. This resulted in the development of their new patient information leaflet and video.  You can download their leaflet here and view their video here.

Additionally, TOHETI has been hosting patient support groups and their next sessions will be held on Wednesday 13^thJuly and Wednesday 5^thOctober at the McNair Centre at Guy’s Hospital. If you’d like to attend one of these sessions please contact Yvonne Akande (yvonne.akande@kcl.ac.uk).

We’re really happy to see fibroids getting a lot more attention as this is an area that women, from our survey in 2013, felt needed a lot more focus.

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The Lake Foundation will be hosting a half day fibroids seminar on 30^thJuly 2016. At this event we will be focusing specifically on treatment including natural ways of managing symptoms. For more information and to book a place please click here