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Mar 8, 2024 · Women’s health research prioritisation exercise to start in April 2024. The process seeks the views of those with lived experience and health and social care professionals on the issues that matter most to them. A commissioned call for research focused entirely on women’s health priorities to be launched in April 2025, building on the ...
Jul 5, 2022 · Health boards will utilise the analytical capabilities of the National Data Resource to support evidence-based services for women and girls. 4. Health boards will ensure the women’s health workforce is supported and developed, to address staff retention, comply with relevant standards including anti racist and anti-oppressive skills, and ...
- Progress Towards A Women and Girls’ Health Plan
- Women’s Wishes and Improvement Opportunities
- Next Steps and Recommendations
- How Has The Plan Been Received by Stakeholders?
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) published the ‘Better for Women’ report in December 2019. It recommended that each of the four UK nations publish a plan to address areas of unmet need for women’s health. Delivery plans have been published in Scotland and Englandbut not yet in Wales. The Health Minister’s quality stateme...
The quality statement on women and girls’ healthincludes a list of 29 conditions where the Health Minister says there is gender inequality. These range from asthma to dementia, heart disease and stroke to gynaecological disorders, and osteoporosis to mental wellbeing, anxiety and depression. The Minister outlined that she wants to see Health boards...
There are six key themes set out in the NHS Wales Collaborative’s report, where it identifies opportunities to improve NHS Services: 1. The voices of women and girls (gender inequality and culture) – improving the way healthcare professionals listen to women and girls about their health concerns and take them seriously. 2. Access to healthcare and ...
The Women’s Health Wales Coalition(which is made up of over 80 third sector organisations, Royal Colleges and Faculties, patient representatives and clinicians) initially welcomed the quality statement. The Health Minister confirmed NHS Wales will be drawing on the Coalition’s version of a women and girls’ health plan (published in May 2022). More ...
Jan 31, 2024 · The UK Government published its women's health strategy for England in August 2022. However, progress in Wales seems to be slower than anticipated. In September 2022, the Minister provided an update on the women's health plan, announcing the establishment of the Women's Health Network by the NHS Executive. The Network is tasked with drafting ...
The Welsh government said: "The health minister has published a new quality statement setting out what is expected of the NHS in Wales in relation to all aspects of women's health. We have also ...
Mar 8, 2022 · The Women’s Health Wales Coalition say a women’s health plan is needed in Wales to proactively address the health inequalities experienced by women. Later this week, the Senedd’s Health and Social Care Committee will be speaking to them to find out more about their views on what a “women’s health proposal” for Wales should look like.
Despite a slight pay increase for women since the original 2019 report, it says Wales' gender pay gap remains 11.3%. The charity will host a series of debates this week to examine how "all women ...
