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Helium Health has secured a US$2.5m grant to deploy AI-powered tools aimed at improving maternal healthcare across four Nigerian states. The funding will support the rollout of clinical AI technology in primary maternal healthcare services across Lagos, Delta, Kano and Oyo, with Lagos serving as the main operational launch site. The initiative will use the [...]

Posted in partnership with Spital Clinic The list in England has grown for five months running while the overall elective backlog falls. Diagnosis and treatment are separate bottlenecks, and a single headline number hides which one is binding. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reported on 16 October that the gynaecology waiting list in [...]

Bangladesh and the European Investment Bank (EIB) plan €250m to expand women’s healthcare for around 47 million women and adolescent girls from 2027 to 2031. The programme, called the Women’s Health Initiative, aims to improve maternal and newborn healthcare, cervical and breast cancer treatment and emergency obstetric services. It will also strengthen primary healthcare, district [...]

Clue has launched an in-app healthcare access service connecting users with providers across several areas of women’s health. The period and cycle tracking app said Get Care is designed to help users move from tracking their health to accessing treatment and support. The service covers contraception, conception, metabolic and mental health, perimenopause and at-home testing [...]

Earlier detection could generate US$527bn in additional potential US women’s healthcare spending by 2030, according to a Deloitte analysis. The estimate reflects a scenario in which care becomes more proactive through earlier diagnosis, prevention and better disease management across women’s life stages. It is not a forecast of guaranteed revenue or healthcare savings. The Deloitte [...]

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised after a human error caused 11 years of maternity data to be overwritten. The incident happened during routine technical work on 18 August, when computer instructions intended to create a copy of a radiotherapy database were mistakenly applied to the maternity database. Most of the affected information has [...]

Jersey is launching a pilot PMOS health check clinic for women to improve follow-up care and access to specialist support. The clinic will operate at the Assisted Reproductive Unit in St Brelade from October, providing health checks rather than diagnosing or treating the condition. Women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) will need to see [...]

Millions of women who have missed cervical screening in England will be offered free NHS home HPV tests. The initiative is aimed at women who are not up to date with screening, with NHS estimates suggesting as many as 4 million have fallen behind. The home kits contain a swab for collecting a vaginal sample, [...]

Pharmacies supplied almost 305,000 free morning-after pill doses in the first five months of England’s expanded contraception service. The emergency contraception was provided between October 2025 and March 2026 without women needing to book an appointment with a GP or sexual health clinic, new NHS figures show. The service launched in October 2025 [...]

An AI blood test being trialled by the NHS could spare thousands of women a painful examination for suspected womb cancer. Around 90,000 postmenopausal women in England are referred by their GP each year to be investigated for possible womb cancer because of heavy bleeding. Around 10,000 women a year in England are diagnosed with [...]