Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the Integrated Care Boards with a women's health hub are delivering all eight core services specified by NHS England; and if his Department will publish the location and service offer of each hub.

Women's health hubs were established as a pilot model, supported by £25 million of funding across 2024/25. It was for integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission these services in the way that best met the needs of their local populations. Information about the number of women’s health hubs and the services they offer is held at ICB level and the Department has no future plans to publish this information.

A core part of the improved women’s health offer set out in the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy will be neighbourhood women's health services. This model, learning from the proof-of-concept women's health hubs, will transform women's healthcare in every community in line with our 10-Year Health Plan neighbourhood model. Where high-quality women's health hubs exist, they will continue to lead service delivery. In other areas we anticipate there will be a dedicated space within broader neighbourhood health centres.

In the future, our vision is that every neighbourhood will provide proactive, specialist and preventative women's health care that complements and extends the primary care offer, directly delivering intermediate care services and leading population prevention within neighbourhoods, including preconception health, contraception, and screening services.

The model will build on the learning from the women’s health hub pilots and moves toward collecting population-level data on access to services, health outcomes and inequalities. This will move the focus from reporting on infrastructure to focusing on impacts of system changes.