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Baroness Hyde of Bemerton (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 April 2026

Debate

Women’s Health Strategy

Contribution

My Lords, I, too, warmly welcome this strategy and thank my noble friend the Minister for all her hard work and persistence with it. It touches on many aspects of my experience but, in the interests of brevity, I shall focus my questions and comments today on endometriosis, having waited eight years myself for diagnosis. I am delighted that the strategy includes a new programme to help young girls to grow up understanding menstrual health and when to seek help. Knowing when to seek help would have saved me many years of monthly agony, vomiting and fever, convulsed on a cold bathroom floor. I note the commitment that women with fibroids and endometriosis will be listened to at first presentation. I have had many bad experiences of clinicians over the years, so I ask my noble friend how we ensure that primary care practitioners listen at first presentation and how we embed that so that future generations of primary care practitioners continue to do so, to save many women the kinds of experiences that I and other people I know have had.

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