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NHS has a problem with 'basic, everyday sexism', health sec says
The plan sets out 117 actions to cut gynaecology waits, with a new trial linking provider funding to women’s feedback.
- On Wednesday, Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched a renewed Women's Health Strategy containing 117 action points, describing the NHS as having an "appalling culture of medical misogyny" that is "failing women and girls on even the most basic measures of healthcare."
- Gynaecology waiting lists have doubled since 2020 to at least 565,134, driving this reform. Patients report being "ignored, gaslit, humiliated and disrespected," while endometriosis diagnosis times average nine years, four months, rising to 11 years for diverse communities.
- New measures include a trial linking provider funding to patient feedback, a £1 million menstrual education programme, and a single referral point. These reforms target "outdated and misogynistic practices" to ensure women are "listened to and taken seriously at the first time of asking."
- Professor Jane Hirst, chair of global women's health at Imperial College London, called the strategy an "important development," noting that managing more conditions in the community rather than hospitals could cut waiting times significantly.
- Following similar initiatives by The Scottish and The Welsh governments, officials aim to prevent health conditions driving working-age economic inactivity. The government pledges to "finally listen with respect, dignity and compassion to the voices and the choices of every woman and every girl, every time.
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NHS accused of 'medical misogyny' as Wes Streeting launches major women's health overhaul
The NHS has been accused of "medical misogyny" as Wes Streeting launches a major women's health overhaul.The Health Secretary is today unveiling a renewed women's health strategy for England, declaring that the NHS has been "failing women" for too long.The Ilford North MP has committed to confronting what he describes as "medical misogyny", saying women have for too long been let down by a system that "gaslights women, treating their pain as an …
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The health secretary has accused the NHS of having an "appalling culture of medical misogyny" as he set out a range of measures in a renewed Women's Health Strategy.
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Health strategy bids to stop women being ‘ignored, gaslit and humiliated’ in NHS
Wes Streeting said the NHS has a ‘problem with basic, everyday sexism’.
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