United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 12448
Pain: Health Services
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23 June 2026
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3 July 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of treatment for chronic pain for women compared with men.
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23 June 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of treatment for chronic pain for women compared with men.
Source: Commons
3 July 2026
Answer
The Renewed Women’s Health Strategy explicitly recognises that women’s pain is too often dismissed, normalised, or ignored, and treats this as a systemic failure, not isolated poor practice. It puts women’s lived experience, including pain and whether the...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-23/12448
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1919348
- uk · wq-1919348 · source updated 3 July 2026