The Medical Women’s Federation welcomes the publication of the NHS 10 Year Plan. We support the direction of travel with the three Strategic Shifts but have some concerns about the implementation of this necessary transformation. We urge the DHSC and NHS leadership to recognise that the NHS is a majority female workforce, and the needs of female employees, including women doctors must be met in the delivery plans.
The implementation of the 10 year plan would make the NHS a better workplace for women if it prioritised increased flexible and family friendly working practices, a zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct and bullying, and reducing the Gender Pay gap.
MWF recently released a new manifesto for women doctors. It was informed by discussions before, during and after a panel with invited representatives of women doctors in twenty different specialty areas at the MWF Spring Conference 2025. To read our manifesto, click here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:405f209d-1420-48c0-9551-f4c58045b6ed
To read an opinion piece about the MWF Manifesto titled 'Women GPs and the NHS Ten Year Plan is Now the Time to Thrive' by Ruth Abrams and Victoria Williams in the BJGP, click here: https://bjgplife.com/women-gps-and-the-nhs-ten-year-plan-is-now-the-time-to-thrive/
