The Guardian – Alarm at NHS failings over women’s health

The Guardian – Alarm at NHS failings over women’s health 

The routine dismissal of women’s debilitating health problems as “benign” has contributed to gynaecology waiting lists soaring by 60%, The Guardian says.

Away from the Jubilee celebrations, the Guardian reports that waiting lists for gynaecology treatments have risen by more than 500,000 because of doctors’ “routine dismissal” of women in “debilitating pain”. The president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Edward Morris, tells the paper that waiting lists for major treatments for women’s health issues have risen more than other areas of medicine.