Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to tackle the delay in diagnosis of women suffering from endometriosis.

The National Institute of Health Research hosted research into the experience of women presenting with endometriosis-like symptoms in primary care. The results, published earlier this year, will help our understanding of delays in diagnosis and inform ongoing work on the Women’s Health Strategy.

A call for evidence was launched to inform the priorities, content and actions of the Women’s Health Strategy and included questions on gynaecological conditions such as endometriosis. Following analysis of the responses to the call for evidence, we will set out our commitments on endometriosis within the Strategy.