{"id":1976,"date":"2025-11-03T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:13:31","slug":"dorset-womens-health-we-want-to-hear-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/dorset-womens-health-we-want-to-hear-from-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Women\u2019s Health \u2013 we want to hear from you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Women\u2019s Health Strategy for England (Department of Health and Social Care 2022, updated 2024), sets out 10-year ambitions for boosting the health and wellbeing of women and girls, and for improving how the health and care system listens to women.<\/p>\n

Although women in the UK live longer on average than men, the evidence shows they spend a greater proportion of their lives in ill health or disability.<\/p>\n

NHS Dorset have been working closely with Dorset Women Community Interest Company (CIC), system partners and women themselves over the past two years to understand how to implement the recommendations from the Women\u2019s Health Strategy for England locally across the county of Dorset, as well as women\u2019s health priorities overall, driving forward the Dorset Women\u2019s Health programme.<\/p>\n

As part of the programme, the Dorset Women\u2019s Health Website<\/a> was developed, to be a central point of reference for all information, awareness, self-help, and service provision concerning women\u2019s health for the women of Dorset, as well as five additional projects:<\/p>\n