This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Increase funding available for Women’s Health Services
Increase funding available for primary and secondary care relating to women’s health issues, as well as research, education and public awareness.
Examples of issues:
Birth injuries, prolapse, endometrioses menopause related and the impact on mental health that couple these issues.
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The number of women who suffer from women’s health issues is significant.
That said, a large proportion of these women suffer in silence.
Due to the lack of understanding, awareness and/or resource, many women's health issues go undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed, often resulting in the worsening of symptoms.
The detrimental impact on mental health is also understated.
More funding is required to enable women to be seen, heard, understood and treated in a more timely manner.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months
Related activity
New Women's Health Strategy published by the Government
On Wednesday 20 July the Government published the first ever Women's Health Strategy for England. This document sets out the results of the consultation the Government ran in 2021 on women's health, and the actions it is taking to improve the health of women and girls.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay MP, made a statement on the Strategy and took questions from MPs in the House of Commons, to coincide with the publication of the strategy.
The Secretary of State's statement outlined the key ambitions and elements of the Strategy. These include:
- Ensuring that women are better listened to in the NHS
- Better access to services for all women and girls
- Addressing the lack of research into women’s health conditions
- Better information and education on issues relating to women’s health
- Targeted action on specific areas such as fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, and female-specific health conditions such as endometriosis.
Actions the Government has said it will take to help achieve these goals include introducing mandatory teaching and assessment on women’s health for all graduating medical students and incoming doctors, and undertaking new research and data gathering to increase understanding of women's health issues.
You can read the Strategy in full on the UK Government website. The Strategy only covers England as government policy on health matters is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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