Women get a private place to work out what might be making things harder, and to find support that fits. Their organisation sees, in grouped figures, whether the support it already provides is known, used and helpful.
Summ Base starts from what each woman says, not from a checklist. Rebecca and Andy have different jobs and different needs, so it suggests somewhere different to start.
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Rebecca
Police officer
Response officer on rotating shifts, including nights. Her force is connected to Summ Base.
Employer connected
What she tells Summ Base
“I’m exhausted after nights and I can’t concentrate. I get so hot in my body armour.”
What seems most relevant
Poor sleep after nights may be making work harder. Heat in her kit may be adding to it.
Where Summ Base suggests she starts
Better sleep after night shifts.
Support that fits
Ask about a more predictable shift patternThrough her force
Ask for lighter uniform layersThrough her force
Prepare for a GP appointment
What she does
Plans what to say to her sergeant, without mentioning menopause. Nothing is sent for her.
Later, if she wants
Checks in after shifts to see whether the change helps.
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Andy
Engineer
Engineer at an aerospace company, in design reviews and a clean room. Her employer isn’t connected.
No employer connected
What she tells Summ Base
“I’m losing words in design reviews and I dread them now. My periods are heavier, and it’s hard to leave the clean room.”
What seems most relevant
Heavier periods and a toilet that’s hard to get to may be making long sessions harder. Losing words in reviews is knocking her confidence.
Where Summ Base suggests she starts
Managing periods at work.
Support that fits
Prepare for a GP appointment, because heavier periods are worth checking
Plan what to say at work: planned breaks in clean-room sessions, and agendas before reviews
Acas guidance on menopause at work
What she does
Books a GP appointment with her note, and asks her manager for planned breaks.
Later, if she wants
Saves support for how she’s feeling, for when she’s ready.
Rebecca and Andy are illustrations, not real people. Rebecca’s force adds its own support to her map. Andy’s employer isn’t connected, so she gets independent support, and her Summ Base is just as much hers.
Free for women, always
A personal email address, never a work one
Her Summ Base moves with her if she changes jobs
Urgent help is one tap away on every screen
Summ Base helps women find support. It does not diagnose or replace a GP.
Where the two sides never meet
Stays on her side
Who she is
What she wrote and what she noticed
What she saved, prepared and tracked
Identity does not cross
Reaches the organisation
Grouped figures only
Nothing from fewer than 10 people, or 15 in a division, role type or work pattern
Make the support it already provides easier to find, use and improve
What an organisation gets to do
Add the support it already has
1All the menopause support it offers: policies, services and adjustments
2Its Employee Assistance Programme
3Training for managers
4Occupational Health, and how to ask for an adjustment
See what’s working
Which support is being used
How it’s rated: whether women knew about it, used it and found it helped
What women asked for that isn’t there yet
Make it fit real jobs
Set which support and adjustments fit which roles and work patterns
Tell women what changed
Every figure is a grouped pattern, shown only where enough people answered to protect everyone in them. Never an individual.
Getting started
Start with your existing support.
A short discovery and configuration phase, before any live use. It maps the support an organisation already provides and configures Summ Base around its roles and work patterns.