NHS England: NHS breast screening: accessible format informed choice letter content offers guidance for NHS breast screening providers on using national accessible format letter content to support informed choice.
NHS Digital: Cervical Screening Programme - Coverage Statistics [Management Information]
This online resource will help support the programme to be effective in achieving its aim to reduce the number of women who develop invasive cervical cancer and reduce the number of people who die from it.
NHS digital: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Annual Report - April 2021 to March 2022 (experimental statistics report) is a repository for individual level data collected by healthcare providers in England, including acute hospital providers, mental health providers and GP practices.
Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care - Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20
This report, the ninth MBRRACE-UK annual report of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity,includes surveillance data on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy between 2018 and 2020 in the UK.
Indirect maternal deaths: UK and global perspectives: Indirect maternal deaths outnumber direct deaths due to obstetric causes in many high-income countries, and there has been a significant increase in the proportion of maternal deaths due to indirect medical causes in low- to middle-income countries. This review presents a detailed analysis of indirect maternal deaths in the UK and a perspective on the causes and trends in indirect maternal deaths and issues related to care in low- to middle-income countries.
NHS Employers: Menopause and the workplace offers information on how menopause can affect people at work and practical guidance for employers on how to improve workplace environments for them.
Menopause and the NHS workforce: This document discusses the impact of menopausal symptoms on women who work in the NHS, particularly those in acute or mental health trusts. Many women experience symptoms that affect their ability to work, leading to workforce participation issues and potentially costing the NHS millions of pounds. Menopause-related sickness is likely to be under-reported, and presenteeism is common among women with menopausal symptoms
NHS England: Supporting our NHS people through menopause: guidance for line managers and colleagues
This guidance helps NHS organisations, line managers, and those working in the NHS understand more about the menopause, how they can support colleagues at work and those experiencing menopause symptoms.
The British Menopause Society (BMS): is the specialist authority for menopause and post reproductive health in the UK. Established in 1989, the BMS educates, informs and guides healthcare professionals, working in both primary and secondary care, on menopause and all aspects of post reproductive health.
NHS Menopause Programme:
The Menopause awareness elearning session will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. It will give learners an overview of what the menopause is, the common symptoms associated with it, and scenarios which will help our people better understand the ways in which they can help support themselves and each other.
This elearning is designed for all colleagues in the workforce. Whether you are a person transitioning through the menopause, or if you are looking for information to help you support a colleague, employee, friend or relative who is experiencing symptoms of the menopause.
Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women by Alyson McGregor (TED Talk)
You might not know this: Many of the medicines we take -- common drugs like Ambien and everyday aspirin -- were only ever tested on men. And the unknown side effects for women can be dangerous, even deadly. Alyson McGregor studies the differences between male and female patients; in this fascinating talk she explains how the male model became our framework for medical research ... and what women and men need to ask their doctors to get the right care for their bodies.
What women want: addressing women’s health inequalities (The King's Fund podcast)
To mark International Women’s Day, host Helen McKenna speaks with Professor Dame Lesley Regan and Dr Janine Austin Clayton about women’s health journeys from start to finish. They explore why women can struggle to get medical professionals to listen to them and the impact this has on diagnosis and treatment, as well as the mental and physical effects on women themselves. Related resources: The Women's Health Strategy: ensuring no women are left behind (blog) Health inequalities: our position (The King's Fund's view) What is the role of the NHS in tackling health inequalities?
Gender Biases in Estimation of Others’ Pain:
Highlights
• In two studies, perceivers under-estimated female patients’ pain compared with males’ pain.
• Perceivers’ pain-related gender stereotypes predicted pain estimation biases.
• Perceivers prescribed more psychotherapy for female and more pain medicine for male patients.
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Sex matters : how male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it By: McGregor, Alyson J This book can be borrowed from the Barts Health Knowledge & Library Services.
Does the NHS have a glass ceiling? "When measured against the European Commission’s definition, the NHS has achieved board gender parity. Even by the more stringent target that the NHS set itself of 45% to 55% women on boards by 2020, it performs well, with 43% of NHS board members reportedly now women.
However, the NHS should not pat itself on the back just yet – there is still much to be done..."
Gender pay gap report 2022: A combined report for NHS England and NHS Improvement: This gender pay gap report is a snapshot as of 31 March 2022. The gender pay gap reporting is based on the government’s methodology for calculating difference in pay between female and male employees, considering full-pay relevant employees of NHS England and NHS Improvement.
‘Equal pay’ means being paid equally for the same/similar work. ‘Pay gap’ is the difference in the average pay between two groups.
Action for equality The time is now: The benefits of diverse leadership have been extolled extensively in academic and practitioner publications. This report focuses on the behavioural responses required of senior individuals within the NHS boardrooms to ensure real progress: the why, what and how of achieving boardroom diversity.
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Barts Healt NHS Trust five staff diversity networks organise regular events and courses that covers every aspect of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. For more details on how to join and attend future events and training, please click here.