Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department has published for patients diagnosed with endometriosis.

Information on endometriosis is readily available on the NHS Choices website at:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Endometriosis/Pages/Introduction.aspx

It is for the National Health Service locally to ensure women diagnosed with endometriosis receive appropriate information. NHS England has developed a service specification for severe endometriosis under the specialised commissioning area of complex gynaecology. NHS England expects all units providing a service to women with severe endometriosis to provide care which meets the standards laid out in a specification which can be found on their website at:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/e10-comp-gynae-endom-0414.pdf

We have had no recent discussions with patients' groups about endometriosis.