Publication - Impact assessment

Women's Health Plan - phase two 2026 to 2029: equality impact assessment

Published: 20 January 2026
From: Minister for Public Health and Women's Health, +2 more … Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Chief Medical Officer
Directorate: Chief Medical Officer Directorate, +8 more … Chief Nursing Officer Directorate, Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate, Health and Social Care Finance Directorate, Health Workforce Directorate, Children and Families Directorate, Mental Health Directorate, Population Health Directorate, Primary Care Directorate
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781806435593

Equality impact assessment (EQIA) for phase two (2026 to 2029) of the Women’s Health Plan.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 NHS (2023), Starting your period

2 British Menopause Society (2022), What is the menopause

3 NRS (2024), ‘Mid-2023 population estimates Scotland’,

4 National Records of Scotland (hereafter NRS) (2024), ‘Life Expectancy in Scotland 2021-2023’,

5 UK Government (2024), ‘Shattering the Silence about Menopause: 12-Month Progress Report’

6 Nomis (2023), 'Annual population survey – regional – labour market by age'

7 Public Health Scotland (2024), Scottish Hip Fracture Audit Report 2024.

8 PHS, ‘SFHA Report 2024’.

9 Ibid., p. 417.

10 Report reveals maternity care inequities for disabled women in the UK | LSHTM

11 MENCAP (2023), Learning Disability - Health Inequalities Research

12 House of Commons Library, UK disability statistics: Prevalence and life experiences (2024)

13 Women's Health Plan: Review of the Data Landscape

14 Public Health Scotland (2021), ‘Scottish Burden of Disease Study’

15 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2024), ‘Waiting for a Way Forward’

16 Josep Darbà and Alicia Marsà. ‘Economic Implications of Endometriosis: A Review’, Pharmaco Economics, Vol. 40, No. 12 (2022), pp. 1143-1158.

17 Women's health economics: investing in the 51 per cent | NHS Confederation

18 Information on Unpaid Carers - Carers Census, Scotland, 2023-24 - gov.scot

19 Domestic Abuse Statistics | Scottish Women's Aid

20 Chapter 2: Non-Binary Equality and Protected Characteristics - Non-binary equality action plan: equality impact assessment - gov.scot Trans Report 2024 digital

21 EHRC - Healthy Fact Sheet

22 Births in Scotland - Year ending 31 March 2024 - Births in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

23 Overview - Sexual health and health inequalities - Sexual health - Conditions and diseases - Population health - Public Health Scotland

24 Scotland's Census

25 PHS Support provided or funded by health and social care partnerships in Scotland 2022/23

26 PHS Health Inequalities

27 Palmer, M.J., McCarthy, O.L. and French, R.S. (2025), The Burden of Poor Reproductive Health in England: Results From a Cross-Sectional Survey. BJOG, 132: 2052-2063.

28 Prevalence | Background information | Fibroids | CKS | NICE

Contact

Email: womenshealthplan@gov.scot

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