Dr Stephanie Cook

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Talking General Practice · How women’s health hubs can help improve care · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

We get better return on investment, we get reduction in wait lists and we get better utilize of limited services.

So my view

is that although it's absolutely really important to call out medical misogyny and and that happens, it happens every day, of course it does.

I don't think that that's what we're dealing with as a primary barrier to women not getting the services they need.

I think we have a a grossly independent system.

We only have so many resources to go around.

We know that, but I think a lot of the barriers currently that we see and that we're facing that are limiting women from accessing these much needed services are inefficiencies in the system.

Poor stewardship of of current resources, lack of funding, funding being held up in these block contracts in in hospitals, which is of course a real

Real challenge and when you have underfunded services across the system, it's really hard to go and dip into a pot that's in the negative.

And that's what the many of the real challenges are.

Of course, challenges to training.

and qualifications in in many of these areas and and teaching from med school to postgraduate to people doing their GP training, of course those are all issues.

But I think primarily it's freeing up the resources so that we have for every one pound spent on women's health hubs, we get a five pound investment and similar stats that we see all the time.

So I think it's about one of my buzzwords is stewardship.

So we don't have a lot of resources, so it's about using what we've got better.

And unfortunately, um, we're not seeing the releasing of of access to some of those resources so that we can spend them more carefully and free up sort of expensive secondary care appointments, which are better for the cancer care and the and the major operations.

And you know, we don't need lots of menopause care to be waiting eighteen months to be seen in secondary care.

That we don't need simple ring pessaries to wait a year or more for a poor little old lady with a prolapse not be able to to get that support that many primary care clinicians can deal with.

It's about better utilage, better stewardship and enabling what is that ten year plan, you know, of hospital to community, that left shift.

I'll start with the positive and say that um any focus on women's health is good.

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