Please do not name individual specialists or treatment centres on the forum.

[EndoUK_Comms]

Hi everyone,

We would kindly like to remind forum users to not mention the names of individual specialists or treatment centres on the forum.

We understand that whilst it is important to be able to express your opinions on your treatment we would greatly appreciate it if you do so without naming specific healthcare facilities or specialists on the message board. This is because the Health Unlocked forum is a public site connected to Endometriosis UK and there could be legal consequences for the charity and the doctor concerned, whether these opinions are good or bad.

Additionally, we are also aware that one person's experience and needs of a consultant can hugely differ from another. It is therefore our policy to take down any information that we come across regarding specific consultants or healthcare professionals.

We do understand that it can be challenging to find an appropriate consultant in order to ensure the best treatment for you. Therefore we recommend that women seek out institutions that have been peer-reviewed by other medical professionals and deemed centres of excellence. We feel that a good place to start looking for this information is through the BSGE website and Dr Foster website.

bsge.org.uk/ec-BSGE-accredi...

The BSGE accredited specialist endometriosis centres have consultants who are specialists in the field of endometriosis.

The Dr Foster website can be used to find endometriosis specialists.

drfosterhealth.co.uk/consul...

We have a team of moderators checking the forum daily to ensure that our no-naming policy is enforced. If you come across other threads on this message board where the specialists and treatment centres are being named, please report the post using the report button that should be visible underneath it.

Should you make a post that names a specialist or treatment centre or asks for other forum members to recommend specialists or treatment centres, you will be sent a warning and your post will be removed. On this forum we have a standard 3-strike disciplinary system. "Strikes" are assigned in response to inappropriate behavior on the forum. If a forum user receives 3 strikes on the Health Unlocked forum within a 6-month time period, they will be removed from the forum.

We are a very small charity and it takes up a lot of time and resources to moderate the Health Unlocked forum; therefore we really appreciate the cooperation of the forum users when it comes to honoring our code of conduct.

Thank you for your co-operation.

All the best,

Endo UK