Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include metrics on endometriosis diagnostic times, access to imaging, menopause prescribing, treatment review and referral variation in the women’s health data dashboard and Integrated Care Board improvement plans.

The women's health data dashboard is available on the NHS Futures website and is available to anyone working within the health and care sector who requires insight into women's health. The dashboard records need, access, outcomes, and experiences across a range of women’s health conditions, including diagnostics and prescribing.

The dashboard is intended to provide national and local insight into National Health Service performance in women's health and highlight potential unmet need, unwarranted variation, and health inequalities.

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning services that meet the healthcare needs of their local population and have the freedom to do so, and this includes women's health services. Outcomes in women’s health are shared with ICBs through the data dashboard so they can see how well they are meeting the needs of women in their population. Local systems will then be able to shape their services according to need and can monitor the impact over time.

More data and indicators will be added to the dashboard over the next 12 months.