How women’s health hubs can help improve care
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to Talk in General Practice, the podcast from GP Online. I'm Emma Bauer, the editor of GP Online. On today's podcast I'm speaking to Dr Stephanie Cook, the clinical lead for the Women's Health Hubs in Liverpool, a GP with a special interest in women's health and a director of the Primary Care Women's Health Society. In this conversation, Stephanie discusses how women's health hubs can bring care closer to home, slash waiting times, and help tackle health inequalities, and she explains how the Liverpool hub model works in practice. We also discuss the systemic barriers facing women's health services, including the lack of sustainable funding. the impact of removing women's health from the NHS planning guidance and why better stewardship of resources is crucial to successfully shifting care from hospitals and into the community.
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What is the NHS women’s health strategy and why does it matter?
The MIMS Healthcare Network, covering every aspect of primary care. For more information about our subscriptions, visit gponline.com forward slash subscribe. I'm really pleased to welcome onto the podcast Dr Stephanie Cook. Stephanie is the clinical lead for the Women's Health Hubs in Liverpool, a GP with a special interest in women's health and a director of the Primary Care Women's Health Society. She was heavily involved with the design, development and implementation of women's health hubs across Liverpool, and that work has provided lots of material to support the development of women's health hubs across the country. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Stephanie.
Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you, Emma.
So you're here to talk about women's health subs and all things women's health. And so I thought I'd start off with the women's health strategy. So the government published its updated women's health strategy for England in April. And that strategy basically in the start of it it said that the NHS is currently failing women. In the foreword, the former Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said that the NHS has a problem with basic everyday sexism and an appalling culture of medical misogyny. What do you think are some of the key challenges facing women seeking healthcare at the moment?
I would say to start with, we always welcome any focus on women's health. You know, we know that women have been underserved for many years. We know that gynecology is one of the worst hit specialties and in many areas, including where I am up in the northwest, we see wait lists of around. uh twelve to eighteen months sometimes before patients are seen.
What are the biggest systemic challenges facing women’s health services?
So these are incredibly long waiting lists. patients are really suffering while they um wait to be seen and and and many of these issues as we'll talk about in due course can often be dealt with in the community. By colleagues such as myself, GPs of an interest in women's health, AMPs, uh other healthcare professionals. So we welcome any focus, first and foremost. In answer to your question, what do we think are are the challenges? Well You raised the issue of medical misogyny and women being dismissed, and of course that's important. With one point five million staff that the NHS has, there's always going to be a need to do things better. And there's always going to be a need to call out any of that happening, any misogyny, any dismissive attitudes towards y you you'll have seen some of the the the campaigns such as not just a period, all of these things and and issues such as menopause, endometriosis, all these other things coming to light.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:30
2
What is the NHS women’s health strategy and why does it matter?
1:30–3:02
3
What are the biggest systemic challenges facing women’s health services?
3:02–9:44
4
How do women’s health hubs bring care closer to home and cut waiting times?
9:44–14:04
5
How does the Liverpool hub model operate and link with local GP practices?
14:04–19:29
6
What funding and commissioning barriers limit the expansion of women’s health hubs?
19:29–24:24
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How can women’s health hubs help reduce health inequalities for diverse communities?
24:24–29:15
8
Can women’s health hubs improve cancer screening uptake and early diagnosis?
29:15–33:29
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