Women's Health Hubs
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of women’s health hubs on delivering the objectives of the 2026 Renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England.
Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson
The Renewed Women’s Health 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.
A core part of the improved women’s health offer set out in the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy will be neighbourhood women's health services.
This model, learning from the proof-of-concept women's health hubs, will transform women's healthcare in every community in line with our 10-Year Health Plan neighbourhood model.
Where high-quality women's health hubs exist, they will continue to lead service delivery. In other areas we anticipate there will be a dedicated space within broader neighbourhood health centres.
In the future, our vision is that every neighbourhood will provide proactive, specialist, and preventative women's health care that complements and extends the primary care offer, directly delivering intermediate care services and leading population prevention within neighbourhoods, including preconception health, contraception, and screening services.
Learning from the women's health hubs pilot programme is being used to implement neighbourhood working in women's health.
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