Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that women diagnosed with endometriosis receive detailed information on that condition.

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.