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Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Commons · Question 14504 · Tabled 15 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Nov 2024

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Asked by Chris Bloore

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Getting It Right First Time's guidance entitled Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, published in October 2021; and whether he pl

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Nov 2024

The Getting It Right First Time’s (GIRFT) 2021 report into maternity and gynaecology identified a key barrier in treating heavy menstrual bleeding as the commissioning arrangements for contraceptive and sexual health services. The report recommended the l...