Women's Health
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’s Health Strategy for England locally across the county of Dorset, as well as women’s health priorities overall, driving this forward via the Dorset Women’s Health programme.
As part of the programme, the Dorset Women’s Health Website was developed, to be a central point of reference for all information, education, awareness, self-help, and service provision concerning women’s health for the women of Dorset. We also took forward five other projects within this programme of work, detailed further within the survey.
A survey was circulated in May last year to help support and direct the work of NHS Dorset and partners. We are now recirculating this survey with some small additions, to understand how the website is helping women and healthcare professionals, to obtain your feedback on the future development of the site, and to help inform future work being taken forward by teams working across women’s health in Dorset.
The information will be collected and seen by NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB) and partners for the purposes of understanding how effective this programme has been. Information will only be shared with others in a way that would not identify you. You do not have to complete this survey if you do not want to, however we really value your feedback. We appreciate you taking time to share your views and experiences. Thank you.
While in this survey we refer to ‘women’ and ‘women’s health’ to reflect the language used in the Women’s Health Strategy, we recognise that some people who do not identify as women also require access to women’s health services and hold vital information that can help shape the Dorset Women’s Health website and women’s health services. These groups will also have specific needs and experiences which should be considered. This may include people who are transgender, intersex, non-binary or who have variations in sex characteristics. Women’s health services must be accessible, inclusive and sensitive to unique and specific health needs of local people. People should feel safe to access these services to support their health and wellbeing, free from stigma or discrimination, regardless of the sex they were registered at birth or their gender identity.
