
Women's health: professional resources
All nurses and midwives are encouraged to develop skills and knowledge to enhance best practice, and provide advice and appropriate support to women during their lifespan.
This page provides links to organisations and resources which will support nurses and midwives working in women's health.
Organisations
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women's Health
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- British Menopause Society
- Endometriosis UK
- Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
- Royal College of Midwives
- Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
- The Eve Appeal
- Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC)
Key resources
APPG on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Report Addressing Women's Reproductive Health Inequalities
The APPG WH held a meeting 7 April 2025: The Power of Informed Choice: A Call to Action for Women’s Health Equity, calling for further action on the Women Health Strategy: Read the report (PDF).
Bailey, R. (2022) Identifying and supporting women and girls at risk of, or experiencing, violence and abuse primary health care journal.
Charlotte Glynn (2024) Nursing In Practice. Women's health strategy: Where are we now
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
NHS Wales Health Collaborative.
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review (2020). The Cumberlege Report. First do no harm. This report reviews Primodos, sodium valproate and pelvic mesh.
- Primodos - hormone pregnancy tests (HPTs) – tests, such as Primodos, which were withdrawn from the market in the late 1970s and which are thought to be associated with birth defects and miscarriages
- sodium valproate – an effective anti-epileptic drug which causes physical malformations, autism and developmental delay in many children when it is taken by their mothers during pregnancy; and
- pelvic mesh implants – used in the surgical repair of pelvic organ prolapse and to manage stress urinary incontinence. Its use has been linked to crippling, life- changing, complications
Scottish Government (2019-2020) Women’s Health Group.
Specialist Pharmacy Service. Reproductive Health Patient Group Direction (PGD) Templates. SPS and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH), with the support of specialist stakeholders working within clinical practice, have produced PGD templates for medicines commonly used within reproductive services.
University of Warwick. Sexual and Reproductive Health Behavioural Intervention Toolkit.
Welsh Government. New clinical lead to help drive improvements in women’s health.
International resources
The British Menopause Society (BMS)
United Nations (2016) Sustainable development-goals. “On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.”
World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory (GHO) data - Women and Health
WHO (2021) Women's health