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Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Getting It Right First Time's guidance entitled Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, published in October 2021; and whether he pl

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 Nov 2024
Target answer date
19 Nov 2024
Answer
21 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Getting It Right First Time's guidance entitled Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, published in October 2021; and whether he pl

  2. 19 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Getting It Right First Time’s (GIRFT) 2021 report into maternity and gynaecology identified a key barrier in treating heavy menstrual bleeding as the commissioning arrangements for contraceptive and sexual health services. The report recommended the l...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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