Women face “unacceptable” waiting lists for gynaecology treatment, report finds

More than 570 000 women in the UK are on the waiting list for a gynaecology appointment—just over a 60% increase on pre-pandemic levels, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has reported.1

In England the number of women waiting over a year for care has risen from 66 before the pandemic to nearly 25 000 now, and more than 1300 have been on a waiting list for two years. The college noted that gynaecology waiting lists had grown the most in percentage terms of …