WOMEN’S health is one of those subjects that periodically attracts attention, enrages the people affected, and then slips under the radar again.

For the women still waiting for answers, treatment or someone to take their pain seriously, there is no moving on.

Look through this newspaper’s archives and you will find women describing years of pain, repeated appointments, and the exhausting business of trying to convince someone that something is wrong.

How many times must we hear this before it changes the way women are treated?

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Earlier this year almost 60,000 patients were reported to be on Northern Ireland’s gynaecology waiting lists. Across the UK the charity Endometriosis UK puts the average time for an endometriosis diagnosis at nine years and four months.

Waiting lists tell us about access to care, but there is also a problem with what happens when women first seek help.

A parliamentary report........

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