Health Services: Females

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

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 support specialist health practitioners in the area of women’s health to implement new ways of working during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 18th August 2020

As the Secretary of State set out in his speech on 30 July, the Government is keen to capture learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and to support health practitioners to implement new ways of working.

The National Health System wrote to local systems on 31 July to set out the actions we are asking the NHS to take to take to restore and recover services whilst maintaining capacity to deal with future COVID-19 demand and winter pressures. This includes a full set of actions to ensure general practice and community services – including women’s health – can restore activity to usual levels and reach out proactively to patients whose care may have been delayed.

The NHS would encourage patients dealing with painful symptoms to speak to their general practitioner in order to manage this safely and effectively.

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