Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales | Triniaeth Deg i Fenywod Cymru
What’s going on?
Read FTWW’s latest news and opinion about women’s health equality and beyond below….
To view all events, please visit our calendar here
In The Senedd
Our Chair, Willow, was thanked for her involvement in the work of the Welsh Government’s Disability Rights Taskforce, for sharing her lived experience and ambition to address inequalities, as the first stages of research into the development of a National Centre for Independent Living was published.
Are you taking HRT and still experiencing menopause symptoms?
We are conducting a project to develop a measure of the costs related to having menopausal symptoms for use in the ESTEEM trial which is looking at the use of testosterone when added to hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Everywoman Festival
We were thrilled to be invited to take to the main stage at this year’s Everywoman Festival, with Engagement Officer, Dee, a panellist alongside NHS Wales Women’s Health Clinical Lead, Dr Helen Munro, and Director of the new Wales Women’s Health Research Centre, Professor Jacky Boivin, and Chaired by the Chief Nursing Officer, Sue Tranka.
GPs to be trained to recognise symptoms of endometriosis earlier
Addressing diagnostic delays for endometriosis and improving awareness amongst healthcare professionals remains a core objective for us, so we were delighted to coproduce the training offered to GPs – as reported here by ITV Cymru Wales.
Volunteers’ Week
We couldn’t have the reach or impact we do without our amazing volunteers throughout Wales.
Here are just some of the activities our volunteers have participated in this month:
FTWW’s Champions Coproduce PMDD Information for NHS Wales
Thanks to the efforts and lived expertise of FTWW’s PMDD Champions, Becci and Laura, NHS Wales now offers updated and bilingual information about premenstrual dysphoric disorder and exacerbation on its 111 A-Z pages!
Read our Manifesto: Our Right to Health and Wellbeing in Wales
With the Senedd elections taking place in under a year, we chose this very special day, International Day of Action for Women’s Health, to launch our Manifesto for the 2026-2030 Senedd term.
FTWW Website Officially Launched!
Our new website is live! We have chosen today – International Day of Action for Women’s Health – as our official launch day of the new and improved site.
International Day of Action for Women’s Health
Today (May 28th) is International Day of Action for Women’s Health, and this years theme is “In Solidarity We Resist: Our Fight, Our Right!”
Drawing Out Long-Term Health Issues in Wales
Thanks to funding from the Rosa ‘Voices from the Frontline’ Fund, we were excited to host two ‘arts & wellbeing’ workshops during the last month with FTWW members in south and north Wales.
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