Health Awareness
Women’s Healthcare Q1 2022
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Ensuring families are supported from the start of their fertility journey
Struggling to conceive? Make sure you are fully informed about the issues around fertility treatment before you start. Starting a family requires serious thought, but even if you decide to go ahead, getting pregnant is not always as simple as you might hope. Around one in seven UK couples may have difficulty conceiving, according to...
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Improving breast cancer awareness among ethnic minority groups
It is vital that we identify and dismantle the barriers to early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer amongst ethnic minority groups. In the UK, around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year – it’s the most common cancer amongst women, with one woman diagnosed every 10 minutes. Tackling the...
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Q&A: Support is available to help you through the menopause
Every woman is an individual and symptoms of the menopause can vary hugely in duration and severity. It is important to understand your own symptoms in order to seek the best support. Q: For women who are in their 40s, what should they be aware of when thinking about the perimenopause? Women are born with...
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There are more reasons than ever to attend colposcopy appointments
Cervical screening and colposcopy are a powerful way to reduce cancer cases. Now a device that increases the accuracy of detection makes for easier treatment decisions. Hearing that you have an abnormal cervical screening result (smear) is always worrying. It may mean being called into a clinic for a colposcopy, a test designed to detect...
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The silent disease putting women at risk
Osteoporosis is a silent threat, especially to women facing, going through or post-menopause – yet it’s widely ignored by doctors and even women themselves. Osteoporosis is a neglected condition – and hundreds of thousands of post-menopausal women suffer as a result. “Osteoporosis affects 3.7 million people in the UK (78% of which are women), but...
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Why we need to be more honest about the issue of vaginal dryness
Vaginal dryness is a taboo subject — although it shouldn’t be because it’s extremely common and isn’t limited to menopause. Thankfully, solutions are readily available. There’s a sex scene in And Just Like That…, the recent sequel to Sex and the City, where one of the main characters reaches for some lube. Rachel Rowntree was...
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The HPV vaccine and screening are our best tools for eliminating cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women globally but, it can be prevented with the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer screenings. Laura Brennan did not get the HPV vaccine and her words were recorded in March 2019, shortly before she passed away, “This vaccine is safe and effective and along with cervical...
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UK employers failing to support women’s reproductive healthcare needs
Reproductive technologies have improved drastically in their 40-plus year history, but workplace policies to protect and support women in need of fertility treatment are still sadly lacking. In 2019, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, 53,000 women, most of them in employment, underwent fertility treatments such as IVF – the complex, invasive and...
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Endometriosis: a misdiagnosed condition affecting 1.5 million
Why are so many told that crippling period and pelvic pain is normal? Women are waiting an average of eight years to get diagnosed with common condition. “You’d better get used to this – this is what it’s like being a woman!” Harriet will never forget those words, directed at her with a laugh by...
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Being breast aware from a young age could save your life
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women aged 25-49, but young people are not routinely screened. Checking regularly is the best way for young people can get to know themselves. When you think of someone affected by breast cancer, who do you think of? A young person? Perhaps you picture someone older? Although...
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The challenge of diagnosing the cause of chronic pain
There is a growing need to raise awareness of some of the less well-known gynaecological conditions which can lead to women suffering with chronic pain if left untreated. Awareness of gynaecological conditions such as endometriosis is growing, but there is limited public awareness of some gynaecological causes of chronic pain. Overlapping symptoms of many conditions...
