Health inequality: “Women’s health ambassador” will help deliver strategy to close gender gap in England

The views of over 100 000 women and 400 organisations will help to set an agenda to improve the health of women and their experiences in the NHS in England, the government has said.1

The consultation, launched in March, that generated the views has highlighted problems entrenched in a healthcare system that often fails to keep women safe and to listen to them. Similar concerns were chronicled in recent inquiries into the rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson and the use of Primodos, sodium valproate, and pelvic mesh, which found that women’s concerns were often ignored …