Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure women living with endometriosis are supported mentally and physically while they are on the waiting list for treatment.

To support women with endometriosis, all obstetricians and gynaecologists have been trained in the diagnosis, investigation, and management of the condition, which is within the core curriculum for obstetrics and gynaecology. Women with endometriosis or suspected endometriosis should receive good care in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline ‘Endometriosis: diagnosis and management’. Within the guideline, clinicians are advised to direct women to local support groups, online forums and national charities and how to access them and if the woman agrees, to involve people important to them in discussions.