John Tomlinson was formerly senior partner in a four-partner undergraduate and postgraduate teaching practice in Alton, Hampshire, and was Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Margaret Rees is a Medical Gynaecologist and Reader in Reproductive Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford. Tony Mander is a practising Consultant Gynaecologist, is deputy editor of the Journal of the British Menopause Society and honorary clinical teacher in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Manchester University.