Women's Health Hubs

Women's health hubs were established as a pilot model, supported by £25 million of funding across 2024/25. It was for integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission these services in the way that best met the needs of their local populations. To support evaluation of the pilots, NHS England collected information at an ICB level. It did not collect a central record of the individual location of each hub or the specific services provided at each site. The Department therefore has no plans to publish a national list of hub locations or services.

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.

The model will build on the learning from the women’s health hub pilots and moves toward collecting population-level data on access to services, health outcomes, and inequalities. This will move the focus from reporting on infrastructure to focusing on impacts of system changes.