Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women and girls have been (a) diagnosed with and (b) treated for heavy menstrual bleeding by the NHS in each calendar year since 2015.

Figures on how many women and girls have been diagnosed and treated by the National Health Service for heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) per calendar year are not held centrally.

NHS England advise that there is not always an underlying cause for heavy periods, which can be common, however they can also result from problems such as fibroids or endometriosis. It is therefore important to get persistent symptoms checked out by speaking to a general practitioner (GP). Advice for this is available on nhs.uk, where a quick ‘Heavy period self-assessment’ can advise on simple steps that may help, as well as speaking to a GP.