Health Services: Women
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce waiting times at women's health hubs.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to encouraging integrated care boards (ICBs) to further expand the coverage of women’s health hubs and to support ICBs to use the learning from the women’s health hub pilots to improve local delivery of services to women.
Women’s health hubs have a key role in shifting care out of hospitals and reducing gynaecology waiting lists. As of December 2024, 39 out of 42 ICBs reported that they had a women’s health hub. Reporting from ICBs to NHS England shows that the pilot funding has been used to open or expand a total of 88 hubs. ICBs are responsible for commissioning services that meet the health care needs of their local population, including women's health hubs.
Data on waiting times for women’s health hubs is not collected centrally.
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