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….
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Senedd Inquiry – Supporting People with Chronic Conditions: FTWW members have their say
You may recall that last year, the Senedd’s Health and Social Care Committee launched their inquiry into supporting people with chronic conditions. The consultation stage revealed a clear overarching message for the need to improve person-centred, holistic care, and...

Schroedinger’s Lump – Dee Dickens
Our Trustees are incredibly talented people, and Dee Dickens is no exception! We are absolutely delighted to not only congratulate them on the publication of her latest poetry collection, Shroedinger’s Lump, but also thank her for kindly donating proceeds from sales...

FTWW Benefits from Awards for All Funding
We are really excited to announce that FTWW has been successful in securing a Lottery Awards for All grant to refresh our website and create new and more downloadable resources for our community. We are keen to ensure that the website is more accessible and easier to...

Updates on the Development of a NHS Wales Women’s & Girls’ Health Plan
Earlier this month we Chaired the first Annual General Meeting of the third sector Women’s Health Wales Coalition, where we were pleased to hear updates from the new Welsh Government Women’s Health Policy Team. Assurances were given that a new National Clinical...

All-Wales Menopause Conference is Hosted in Wrexham!
And we were delighted to be asked to organise patient speakers for the event. Our thanks go to Laura, Becci, and Carla (pictured, above), FTWW volunteers who each gave hugely powerful and knowledgeable talks on the symptoms of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)...

Menopause Mandate: Dawn attends House of Lords event
Dawn Owen (just off centre right, holding a FTWW leaflet), one of FTWW’s fantastic volunteers and Menopause Champions, was this month invited to the House of Lords for the launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group’s launch of a UK Menopause Manifesto. The Manifesto...

Menopause Awareness Month: Easy Read Wales launches new menopause guides
18th October was World Menopause Day, and Easy Read Wales launched four bilingual easy read guides covering menopause and perimenopause, symptoms, HRT and keeping well, and speaking to doctors and healthcare professionals. The booklets were co-produced with FTWW, The...

FTWW backs Welsh NHS Confederation call for conversation on future of nation’s health and wellbeing
32 organisations, including FTWW, have come together to support the Welsh NHS Confederation’s call for a cross-government national conversation on the future of health and wellbeing. The organisations, from a range of sectors in Wales, believe it is for all government...

Disability Rights: Report finds worsening violations of disabled people’s rights
[:en] UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations last week launched a scathing report evaluating the government’s performance seven years on from a United Nations finding of grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights due to austerity and welfare...

Update from the Welsh Government’s Ministerial Disability Rights Taskforce
We’re delighted to bring you an update from the Disability Rights Taskforce, in which FTWW and our volunteers regularly participate. The Taskforce sends a big thank you to members of the working groups which have now concluded their deliberations, all of which have...