Women's Health Hubs

Integrated care boards (ICBs) should take a neighbourhood approach to women’s healthcare, ensuring women can get the care they need regardless of whether they speak first to a general practitioner (GP), hospital or other healthcare provider.

We are supporting ICBs to continue improving their delivery of neighbourhood women’s healthcare, in line with their responsibility to commission services that meet the needs of their local populations.

Neighbourhood women’s healthcare is delivered both by a range of providers and digitally, giving women access not just to GPs and community specialists in women’s health but to other services include pelvic physiotherapists, pharmacies and psychological support services. This builds on the successful pilot of women’s health hubs.

The Neighbourhood Health Framework asks each ICB to deliver a national minimum set of interventions over the next three years. These interventions form the building blocks of an effective, joined-up Neighbourhood Health System.

Local authorities and ICBs will work together through Health and Wellbeing Boards to design Neighbourhood Health Plans that make sense for their local populations. Beyond this, we expect neighbourhood health teams and services to be designed in a way that reflects the specific needs of local populations. While there will be a consistent focus on personalised coordinated care, the service will look different in different places, for example, in rural communities, coastal towns, or deprived inner cities.

Local government has a crucial role to play in connecting people to health and care services, as well as wider support services in their communities, such as Family Hubs, Women's health hubs, employment support, and housing services. Learning from the women's health hubs pilot programme is being used to implement neighbourhood working in women's health.

The renewed Women’s Health Strategy was published on 15 April 2026. The renewed strategy sets out a bold, long‑term plan to transform how the health and care system listens to, supports and delivers for women and girls. It puts women’s voices and choices at the centre of care, drives faster improvements in services and outcomes that matter most to women, and tackles long‑standing health inequalities across the life course. The strategy aligns with the 10-Year Health Plan to shift care into the community, harness digital innovation and strengthen prevention so women can live healthier, more fulfilled lives.

We will fund a specialist centre in each Region for group-based approaches to high volume low complexity women’s health pathways. This will improve productivity and empower women in common clinical areas, helping reduce waiting lists and supporting self-management.