Elizabeth Greenhall obituary

My friend Liz Greenhall, who has died aged 83, was a public health consultant who was responsible for family planning services in Oxfordshire. Her work broke new ground in the provision of healthcare for young women and marginalised groups, and included the institution of “Bodyzone” clinics in schools, where pupils had direct access to advice on a range of health issues including providing contraception. In 2000 the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare (now known as the College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare) recognised her work with the grant of the David Bromham memorial award. Born in Birmingham, Liz was the daughter of Johanna, known as Hansi (nee Elner), an educational psychologist, and Helmut Reiner, who worked for Harris Brushes. Her parents met in Vienna, but came to England in 1939 to escape persecution; both were socialists, and Hansi was Jewish. Liz went to King Edward VI high school for girls in Birmingham, where she was head girl, and met her eventual husband, Richard Greenhall, who was then head boy of the corresponding boys’ school. Liz studied medicine at Oxford University, where we met as fellow students, and then at Westminster Hospital Me