Department of Health and Social Care. Chief Medical Officer annual report 2014: women’s health
Guidelines for nurses. Women's health. Guideline summaries and featured articles on women's health.
Health in Wales (2020) Woman’s Health and 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- Primodos - hormone pregnancy tests (HPTs) – tests, such as Primodos, which were withdrawn from the market in the late 1970s and which are thought to be associated with birth defects and miscarriages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
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.
“We’re made to feel invisible”. This report looks at the barriers to accessing cervical screening for women with physical disabilities.
Mapping the Maze. What support is available for women facing multiple disadvantage across England and Wales? Mapping the Maze aims to identify what and where services exist for women experiencing homelessness, substance misuse, poor mental health, offending and complex needs.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (2011) High Quality Women’s Health Care. This report looks at how NHS women’s health services could be configured to provide high-quality, safe and timely care.
RCOG. Better for women report: Improving the health and wellbeing of girls and women - In December 2019 The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists launched their strategy. This report identifies simple and cost-effective solutions to prevent girls and women falling through the cracks of our health systems.
RCOG (2018). Women’s Health Taskforce for England is launched.
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.
Work Foundation (2017) More than “women’s issues” Women’s reproductive and gynaecological health and work. By focusing on 4 major issues: endometriosis, infertility, pregnancy, and menopause, this paper sheds light on these less-talked-about factors of female reproductive and gynaecological health which present challenges to working.