Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales | Triniaeth Deg i Fenywod Cymru
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Read FTWW’s latest news and opinion about women’s health equality and beyond below….
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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...
Female health and Endometriosis: Read our blogs for The Welsh Fabians
We were delighted to be asked to write two blogs for The Welsh Fabians, part of The Fabian Society, which is an independent left-leaning think tank and a democratic membership society with over 7,000 members. They influence political and public thinking and provide a...
PMDD: Becci Launches Petition
FTWW members and PMDD Champions, Becci and Laura, featured on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast regarding Becci’s Senedd Petition to improve care for the condition (1.35.00 on). Becci also talked to BBC Wales News Online and BBC Wales Today. ITV’s This Morning programme also...
Experts call for urgent mental health support for people living with long term autoimmune diseases
A new study has highlighted the shocking mismatch of clinician and patients experiences of neurological and mental health issues in people with autoimmune rheumatological conditions. More than half of patients with auto-immune conditions experience mental health...
Focus on Menopause: #Flushfest23 and the second All-Wales Menopause Conference
Join #FlushFest23 in Edinburgh or online on 8 and 9 September, for a festival full of menopause advice, fun, storytelling, wellbeing workshops and much more. See the full programme and buy tickets here. We’d also like to remind you that the second All-Wales Menopause...
Llais: First 100 Days
Since April 2023 the people of Wales have had a new independent body to help shape health and social care services. Llais has been set up by the Welsh Government to raise the power and influence of the voices of people living in Wales, and we regularly recommend them...
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