About the Primary Care Women's Health Forum

Our Aims

The Primary Care Women’s Health Forum aims to…

Have a wide range of membership from multiple disciplines in order to promote and progress standards in women’s health across the spectrum.

Be extensively recognised and respected as a credible body to be consulted with in regards to women’s health issues, as well as being a focus for female patients as a source of information.

The PCWHF recognises that not everyone assigned female at birth or with female biological characteristics identifies as a woman and that not all women have female biological characteristics. We recognise both the biological experience of being born with female biological characteristics and the gendered experience of identifying as a woman.

Our Objectives

For its members the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum will provide…

A focus for all interested practitioners within the primary care team on women's health issues.

Continuous sharing of best practice in relation to international, national and regional developments in women's health issues.

An opportunity for peer support and exchange of views.

An opportunity to support and develop evidence-based practice.

A platform to honour, recognise and acknowledge issues facing the BAME communities – both of our colleagues and our patients – and seek ways of actively supporting them.

For patients the PCWHF will specifically ensure…

Women are able to make informed choices about where they access care for women’s health issues.

Women are informed about the full range of management options and clinical interventions available to them.

The views of women are sought and listened to, to ensure they influence future models of care.

For strategic and policy development the PCWHF will specifically…

Promote the highest standards of provision of appropriate women’s health care in primary care settings whilst continuously striving for improved quality and performance.

Act as a lobby group for its members in influencing the Department of Health and others in determining future strategic direction and policy making in relation to women’s health.

Act as advisors to Commissioners and Practice-Based Commissioners on the suitability of commissioning models of care for women’s health issues.

Act as clinical and managerial cohort of expertise which can be called upon for advice across the spectrum of women’s health.

All of this is possible with the support of our members

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Executive Committee

Dr Anne Connolly MBE

GPwSI Gynaecology, Bradford

Dr Julie Oliver

GPwSI women’s health, Durham

Dr Sarah Gray

GP specialist in women’s health, Cornwall

Dr Caroline Cooper

Sexual and Reproductive Health, Cambridge

Tracey Elliott

ANP / Lead Nurse

Karl Hamer

Managing Director, E4H, Hertfordshire

Hazel Lodge

Commercial Director, E4H, Hertfordshire

Emma Morriss

Head of Marketing and Content E4H

Wider board members

Dr Christine Corrin

PwSI Gynaecology, Leeds

Dr Jane Davis

GP with a specialist interest in women’s health, Cornwall

Dr Toni Hazell

GP, appraiser, freelance medical writer and editor

Dr Louise Price

GPwSI Gynaecology, Bath

Dr Aamena Salar

GP with specialist interest in Gynaecology.
Clinical lead for Modality Gynaecology Service.
Medical Director for Modality Community services.

Lesley Wylde

Retired – Partnership Development Manager – Women’s Health

Dr Stephanie Cook

General Practitioner with a specialist interest in Women’s Health

A number of the PCWHF board members and regional leads work alongside industry on a number of clinical and non-clinical initiatives, some of this work is paid for directly by industry. Details of these can be found on the ABPI disclosure website and Who pays this doctor