Women’s health: specific assessments to become mandatory in medical training

Specific teaching and assessments on women’s health will become mandatory for all graduating medical students from 2024 and for all incoming doctors, the government has pledged as part of its first women’s health strategy for England.The Department of Health and Social Care said the strategy “sets bold ambitions to tackle deep rooted, systemic problems within the health and care system to improve the health and wellbeing of women and reset how the health and care system listens to women.”The strategy, published on 20 July, contains a commitment to commission research by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) on women’s health, together with the establishment of a new policy research unit on reproductive health. The research will tackle data gaps, identify barriers to women participating in research, and improve the quality of data collected by the NHS.The strategy also promises a new reproductive health experience survey carried out…
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