Medical regulator faces questions over board members’ links to drug firms https://t.co/OYm1p9yvtS Also have a look @ #hysteroscopy equipment manufacturers influence on some gynaecologists. @GdnHealthcare #GenderPainGap

https://t.co/jGoIEZEWXn ⁦@wesstreeting⁩ Please have a look at hysteroscopy in outpatients .

I have signed an @RCGP joint letter calling on @wesstreeting to employ enough GPs to give patients the care they deserve. The more GPs in England sign up to the campaign the more likely he will listen

@KDogg0_o @HysteroscopyA Because OPH is cheap and women are expected to see gynae pain as just part of being female 😡 #medicalmisogyny

@KDogg0_o @HysteroscopyA I’m so sorry this happened to your mum. I fear we are still not believed when we say that these procedures are intolerable without analgesia. I feel like the medical professionals have their hands over their ears. Another one fobbed me off the other day.

@KDogg0_o Could it be because Prof T Justin Clark & his research team @BWH_NHS promoted 'Low Cost Hysteroscopy' with just OTC meds from home & distraction technique? Clark claims in @bmj_latest that it "works well for most women". 35% have SEVERE pain in OPH. Cheap #MedicalMisogyny

@KDogg0_o @HysteroscopyA It is absolutely barbaric and women are hoodwinked and gaslit into the procedure. All the staff know exactly what is involved for the women in this situation and that makes them complicit and deceitful

Tell me why women are still going through hysteroscopies WITHOUT adequate analgesia?! My poor mother came out rather upset following it today. Camera, polyp removal AND a biopsy and still no analgesia? Bloody barbaric. Why isn’t a penthrox standard?! @HysteroscopyA

@HysteroscopyA I have been through it twice. First with a polypectomy. On the second time the doctor was looking at me as if I was a spoiled brat for crying during the procedure, and when I refused having the polypectomy she almost yelled at me.

@lmlais @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA Stomach churning, the pressure the team puts on patients is their own pressure to get waiting list down, its abhorrent, passing your own stress onto patients you are meant to be caring for, overlooking that’s it’s a patient in pain in front of them, time to reevaluate the plan

@pash22 @susan_bewley @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @SEL23040118 @mancunianmedic @TheBSGE @RCObsGyn @RaneeThakar @NHSEngland @morris_ep @NHSGIRFT @JonUngoedThomas @TJustinC @jimgthornton @doctorhelgi We offer sedation and analgesia for colonoscopy and cystoscopy as standard. We’ve never tried to find out what % of people could manage without and not experience severe pain, because it is unethical. Yet in hysteroscopy is considered acceptable? It’s not.

. @mikenesbittni outlined some changes that are being made ✅ but could not give a publication date for a Women’s Health Action Plan - something @RobinSwann_MP kick started in Feb 2024

@sandydoc79 @mlchealth @mikenesbittni @niexecutive @clarky_on It’s happening everywhere. It’s assault, because consent is either not fully informed beforehand, or unable to be freely withdrawn during the procedure. It’s only women. It’s not good enough.

@mlchealth @mikenesbittni @RobinSwann_MP No publication date & however long that takes, the following implementation time period, a pipe-dream, no doubt! 😔 #SaveOurWomenNow: #PublicAwarenessCampaign of #Gynae symptoms #Guidance2GPs #BetterPathways

@mlchealth @mikenesbittni @RobinSwann_MP Women in Menopause Support Group NI Facebook group are reporting waiting times of 2+years for apps at Menopause Clinics. Would like to meet with Mr Nesbitt @mikenesbittni to discuss

@WingsEcosse @kiityc @pash22 @susan_bewley @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @SEL23040118 @mancunianmedic @TheBSGE @RCObsGyn @RaneeThakar @NHSEngland @morris_ep @NHSGIRFT @JonUngoedThomas @TJustinC @jimgthornton @doctorhelgi Sadly it is inflicted on women across the country on a daily basis - no analgesia (take your own paracetamol / ibuprofen) or anaesthesia. Despite years of campaigning, almost nothing has changed - bc it’s only for women and their pain and distress count for nothing

@kiityc @pash22 @susan_bewley @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @SEL23040118 @mancunianmedic @TheBSGE @RCObsGyn @RaneeThakar @NHSEngland @morris_ep @NHSGIRFT @JonUngoedThomas @TJustinC @jimgthornton @doctorhelgi The scandal about this is jaw dropping. The misogyny of it is off the scale. I found it hard to believe this is done without anaesthesia or sedation.

@WingsEcosse @pash22 @susan_bewley @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @SEL23040118 @mancunianmedic @TheBSGE @RCObsGyn @RaneeThakar @NHSEngland @morris_ep @NHSGIRFT @JonUngoedThomas @TJustinC @jimgthornton @doctorhelgi My mother had an objectively incredibly high pain threshold, she had root canals without local because she preferred “a little pain” to feeling twitchy from the adrenaline. She fainted from the pain of an endometrial biopsy. Shock isn’t a risk of colonoscopy; it is for OPH.

@WingsEcosse @kiityc @pash22 @susan_bewley @clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @SEL23040118 @TheBSGE @RCObsGyn @RaneeThakar @NHSEngland @morris_ep @NHSGIRFT @JonUngoedThomas @TJustinC @jimgthornton @doctorhelgi that is no consolation for people who *are* in unbearable pain during procedures and are put off having them or traumatised by the event though

@supersue1971 @HysteroscopyA @jan_murray Oh and the 'female gynae' I requested turned out to be a Junior Clinical Fellow who told me she would be performing the procedures. Unfortunately I'm not into mediaeval torture. After that she still asked to perform an exam - I refused that too!

“We’ve more than halved the waiting time for a red flag hysteroscopy referral.” Celebrating the contributions of nursing staff this #WomensHistoryMonth, nurse Vicky’s clinics have reduced hysteroscopy waiting times from 40 to 14 days. #RCNMagazine https://t.co/Wwv5806BHW