Dr Stephanie Cook

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

But unfortunately, going way back to twenty twenty two, when the first strategy came out, we we you know we then saw a small amount of funding went out into I C Bs.

That was uh twenty five million, which worked out at five nine five thousand per I C B.

Lots of challenges there because some ICBs are around three million size, some are under half a million, so not necessarily evenly distributed per population.

And then sadly it wasn't ring fenced.

And we saw many areas report back that significant amounts, sometimes up to as much as fifty percent of those pots, being not actually getting to the areas that they were meant to be uh sent to and being used for sort of overspend and and debt, which is a real tragedy.

Even so, some of those money still went out, but it was non recurrent, it was not ring fenced, and then of course

we saw February last year when sales removed from the NHS planning guidance, which from our my side of view as you know, primary care clinician and and and involved in a lot of these services, it just felt like a bit of an air in the coffin because if you take away that incentive to invest in these services, we cannot build sustainable services on non recurrent funding.

Now, I understand the principle of a little bit of pump priming, a little bit of here's a stunter for ten, here's something to get you going, show a proof of concept.

And then hopefully the powers that be, the I C Bs, etcetera, will listen.

But unfortunately what we see is

I C B saying, Well, we're overspent underfunded in so many areas as it is, the government needs to fund these initiatives if they want them to happen.

And we see the government, DHSE, often saying, Well, ICPs have had their allocation, you know, they need to spend their pocket money wisely.

Sadly, the victims often in that is primarily the patients, but you know, the women's health services where we have shown time and time again

Even our is non recurrence.

Punting.

And and they showed that there was savings, there was reduced wait lists, extremely high patient satisfaction.

Still we're seeing now many of those services that started out.

coming under threat because there is just nothing to support and those pilots.

But your question was, do we think we'll we'll see an improvement as a result of the strategy?

Well, there's good aims there and there's good focuses there.

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