Key Points
Women spend 25 percent more of their lives in ill health compared to men..
Nearly two years on from the publication of the UKs first Womens Health Strategy, a 10-year plan to improve the health of women everywhere, the UK Department of Health has announced Monday that it plans to offer patient passports, digital records of health data that can be accessed by different health care providers..
One crucial, achievable, and affordable step to close the gender health gap is increasing funding for clinical innovation in womens health and leveraging modern gynecological services to collect much-needed data on female-specific conditions...
As more than 90 percent of all womens health care occurs in the community or primary care settings, we need to embed new culturally competent research and data-gathering in these places to increase our understanding of health conditions that affect women and how these vary..
Then on International Womens Day in 2023, 25 million ($33 million) was announced for the establishment or expansion of womens health hubs across the country, which is a startalthough not a lot when you divide the fund equally by 42, the number of Integrated Care Systems across the NHS; this amounts to 595,000 per ICS...
