RSV vaccination is already keeping newborn babies out of intensive care – but with thousands still unprotected, could targeted local interventions help close the remaining gap?
The UK is not short of innovation. The challenge is building the national systems, funding routes and procurement models needed to turn promising pilots into practical impact for patients.
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Catherine Thompson’s foreword to Reframing Women’s Health: From Fragmentation To System Reform explains the challenge in women’s health is not a lack of evidence, but a failure to implement proven models consistently.
Baroness Amos’ review exposes a maternity system where warnings were missed, families were ignored, and repeated failures were allowed to become a national pattern.
Curia’s new women’s health report commissioned by UK Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovation (UKHLSI) argues that the next phase of women’s health reform must focus on delivery, with community-based care, better access, and stronger accountability replacing fragmented services and local variation.
The Government’s refreshed Women’s Health Strategy is a shift towards accountability and integrated care – but without sustained investment and delivery clarity, its full impact remains uncertain.
Women’s health is no longer a side issue – it is shaping workforce participation, NHS capacity and economic resilience, and the cost of inaction is already being paid.
From workforce participation to NHS capacity, women’s health is shaping the UK’s economic performance whether policymakers choose to acknowledge it or not.
We Don’t Need Another Maternity Inquiry – We Need Action to Save Mothers and Babies Now
Although women make up over 51 per cent of the UK population, 2024’s record figure of 40.5 per cent of female MPs (still a disproportionate number) is set to plummet at the next election. With inclusion and representation rates dropping, the work of 50:50 Parliament and its ‘Ask Her to Stand’ agenda could not be more relevant or more necessary.
Investing in women’s health is no longer just a question of fairness. Curia’s new report launched today.
On Wednesday 22nd October, Labour MP for Newport West and Islwyn Ruth Jones, joined Chair of the 1987 Committee Fatima Kamara, for an ‘In Conversation’ webinar hosted by Chamber UK and Politics UK. Their discussion spanned Welsh and national affairs, health, the environment, immigration and economic growth, and Jones provided a refreshingly honest, open and personalised perspective on current affairs.
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