Our friends at Verity (PCOS UK) and Cardiff University led a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the Top 10 PCOS Research Priorities, and FTWW was delighted to be a member organisation of the steering group. The Top 10 have now been announced.
The Health Collective is an initiative led by Wellbeing of Women, made up of healthcare professionals and grassroots organisations working in the women’s health space, with the aim to improve healthcare for marginalised women and people registered female at birth. FTWW’s Dee was delighted to attend this year’s annual meeting in London on 12th November.
FTWW’s Debbie and Isabel were pleased to present to the Western Bay Service Providers’ Forum, made up of local authorities in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, to share evidence about the links between hormones, mental health, and potential risk of self-harm and substance use, so that services can be more aware and able to identify when women and people registered female at birth (AFAB) might be more at risk, such as during adolescence, post-natal, and during peri-menopause.
FTWW’s Debbie and Isabel were pleased to be able to present to the All-Wales Clinical Supervisors for Midwives Network on 30th October, on the need for maternity services and care to understand and accommodate the needs of those who are living with long-term health conditions, are disabled, or neurodivergent.
On Wednesday 8 October, Charity Director, Debbie, and FTWW Chair, Willow Holloway, were delighted to be invited to participate in a 10-year ‘Strategic Intent’ event with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the Bevan Commission.
Researchers at Cardiff and Bangor University, (including FTWW Volunteer Endometriosis Champion, Rachel!) want to find out what works (or doesn’t!) in using tracking apps/diaries, specifically the Endometriosis Cymru Symptom Reporting Tool.
We would like to invite you to attend one of our drop-in stakeholder sessions to discuss the Women’s Health Hubs project within BCUHB.
The women’s health hubs project is a part of the Women’s Health Plan, which can be accessed here.
The project involves establishing a ‘pathfinder’ women’s health hub within each Health Board by March 2026.
As a member organisation of WEN Wales’s Diverse5050 Steering Group, FTWW is pleased to have contributed commentary to the Diverse and Equal Representation Toolkit.
ME Voices Wales is an exciting new project to bring people together so we can listen to each other and work out ways we can communicate about things that are important to us.
A report from Endometriosis UK in March 2024 revealed that the average diagnosis time in Wales has risen to 9 years and 11 months. This virtual...
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