UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has relaunched England's women's health strategy, vowing to end what he called the systemic "gaslighting" of women by a healthcare system that dismisses their pain and delays their diagnoses. Key measures include a new mandatory pain relief standard for invasive procedures such as coil fittings and hysteroscopies, a £1 million menstrual education programme, and a funding mechanism that allows patients to withhold payment for poor-quality private health services. The announcement comes amid warnings that nearly half a million women are on gynaecology waiting lists and that conditions such as endometriosis — which affects tissue similar to the uterine lining and can cause severe chronic pain — take on average a decade to diagnose in England.