Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the number of specialist doctors in the NHS with training and experience in dealing with endometriosis.

To support women with endometriosis, all obstetricians and gynaecologists have been trained in the diagnosis, investigation and management of the condition, which is specifically listed as a topic in the core curriculum for obstetrics and gynaecology.

The latest available data (September 2018) from the National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics indicate that there are 5,937 full-time equivalent doctors working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Specific data are not collected to indicate whether any given doctor has training in or experience of dealing with endometriosis.