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Gaity Ahmad: From Strategy to Surgery Closing the Women’s Health Gap
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Apr 21, 2026, 07:42

Gaity Ahmad: From Strategy to Surgery Closing the Women’s Health Gap

Gaity Ahmad, Member of Guideline Committee RCOG at Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“The new Women’s Health Strategy is a promise for the future. But women in Greater Manchester are in a crisis today.

Policy is a start.

But the data is staggering:

  • The 65-Week Failure: Nationally, ~7,500 patients still wait over 15 months for surgery.
  • The Gender Gap: Gynaecology patients represent a huge, unfair share of these long waits.
  • The Greater Manchester Crisis: 40,000 women are currently waiting for care in our region.
  • Surgical Backlog: 10,000 of those women are waiting specifically for an operation.
  • The Diagnostic Delay: Many of these women have already waited 9+ years for an Endometriosis diagnosis.

We cannot ‘tackle medical misogyny’ while women wait over a year and a quarter for basic surgical care.

A hidden data- women wait more than 10 years for diagnosis and treatment of a chronic disease endometriosis which affects 1 in 10 of women.

A 10-year strategy is a welcome step. But the 10,000 women in GM waiting for surgery need a ‘right now’ solution.

Policy is a promise. Patients need procedures, access to specialists and theatres.

Let’s work together to address health inequality.”

Gaity Ahmad

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