Health Services: Women
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which integrated care boards have not set up a Women’s Health Hub.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Women’s health hubs have a key role in shifting care out of hospitals and reducing gynaecology waiting lists.
As of March 2025, 41 out of 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) reported to NHS England that they had a women’s health hub. The Dorset ICB reported to NHS England that they do not have a women’s health hub.
The Government is committed to encouraging ICBs to further expand coverage of women’s health hubs and to use the learning from existing women’s health hubs to improve local delivery of services to women. ICBs are responsible for commissioning services that meet the health care needs of their local population, including women’s health hubs. NHS England has asked ICBs to set out their plans for their women’s health hubs in 2025/26.
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