Dr Olivia Hum is an experienced GP and has been a GP Partner at Foundry Healthcare in Lewes for the last 13 years. She trained at Cambridge University and UCL Medical School and has worked in Australia and East Timor.

Dr Hum specialises in perimenopause and menopause, hormonal health, contraception and sexual health. She holds the FSRH Advanced Certificate in Menopause Care, training at Guy’s Hospital menopause clinic. One of 240 British Menopause Society Menopause Specialists in the UK and a BMS Trainer, she is on the British Menopause Society Medical Advisory Council and is actively involved with national pathway design and guideline production. Dr Hum is currently working on getting an NHS Menopause service commissioned for Sussex.

A member of the RCGP Adolescent Health Group, which exists to help support GPs in developing health services for young people, Dr Hum is also a GP Trainer and Appraiser, teaching and supporting junior GPs and GP Trainees.

Dr Hum prides herself on offering a holistic service looking at not only physical, but also social and psychological, aspects of health. She is passionate about improving healthcare for women, especially around the menopause and perimenopause, where so many women are suffering needlessly with debilitating symptoms.