Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) start and (b) target completion date are for the redesign of clinical pathways for heavy menstrual bleeding, urogynaecology and menopause; and which body will be responsible for reporting progress.

The Renewed Women’s Health Strategy, published in April 2026, committed to redesigning clinical pathways for heavy menstrual bleeding, urogynaecology and menopause.

These redesigned pathways will create roadmaps for health systems to use and adapt for local needs that will enable women to move more quickly through the system and reach the level of care they need with fewer appointments.

They will also help systems to transform services, plan their workforce and consider where capacity is most usefully deployed so that hospitals can provide the specialist care they are designed to, and move more care where appropriate into the community.

The redesigned pathways will be published in the summer.

Progress will reported and monitored by the local integrated care boards by way of Improvement Plans to NHS England Women’s Health National Programme Board.