On Thursday 12th February 2026, Endometriosis UK featured on ITV News, with our CEO Emma Cox and members of our community speaking about the urgent need for better menstrual health training, including on endometriosis, for healthcare practitioners.
Endometriosis UK is calling on the UK Government to ensure nobody leaves medical school without the knowledge they need to support those with menstrual health conditions, including endometriosis. We want to ensure that menstrual health is a mandatory part of the medical school curriculum and effectively taught to all healthcare practitioners – including GPs, gynaecologists, nurses, doctors, A&E practitioners, and pharmacists.
This would help improve diagnosis times, reduce multiple GP appointments and unnecessary time spent in A&E services, and ensure all patients have access to the right care at the right time.
Despite endometriosis affecting 1 in 10 women and those assigned female at birth, endometriosis and menstrual health conditions are rarely effectively taught at medical schools as part of the curriculum. This critical gap in medical training is leaving future healthcare practitioners without the knowledge they need to support their patients.
It currently takes on average a shocking near 9 years to get a diagnosis of endometriosis in the UK. Far too many experience delayed diagnosis and dismissal of symptoms, in part because healthcare practitioners have not consistently received adequate endometriosis training.
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