As the year draws to a close, we’re excited to share our Annual Impact Report, covering the 2024–2025 financial year! It’s been an incredible year for FTWW and for women’s health in Wales. From helping to launch the NHS Wales Women’s Health Plan (above) to expanding our team and winning Most Influential Small Organisation at the Welsh Charity Awards
We’re delighted to welcome our new Volunteer and Community Coordinator, Louise Kalicinski, to our team! Louise is based in South Wales and joins FTWW from a background of working with children and families from diverse communities.
The GMC is inviting patients and the public to share their views on two important pieces of guidance for doctors, PAs, and AAs, which helps them raise concerns about patient safety and supports leaders and managers to improve the service provided to patients.
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.
A new report has found that menopause care is still failing to meet the needs of some of the most marginalised in society. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on menopause gathered crucial evidence highlighting the barriers experienced by women and people from marginalised communities – and what needs to change so that everyone has access to support when they need it.
FTWW was pleased to contribute insights to the Cross Party Group on Human Rights’ new report: Progress on Human Rights in Wales. Published on 12th November, the report examines how far the Welsh Government has progressed in strengthening human rights – and what more needs to be done.
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.
We were thrilled to be invited to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Wales Annual Conference with around 100 obstetricians and gynaecologists across Wales on 7th November, to present alongside Cardiff University’s Dr Robyn Jackowich and Rachel Joseph on projects and activities relevant to delivery of gynaecology services in Wales.
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