• Two weeks ago we published a damning investigation into the terrible pain thousands of women face when undergoing vital hysteroscopies – a procedure to examine the inside of the uterus to detect cancer and other abnormalities. After we revealed some of the specific horrors individual women faced during this procedure – a test which The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists found left one in three women in severe pain, rating it at least seven out of 10 – you came to us to tell us how you too had been impacted.
Campaigners believe the NHS is failing to inform patients of the risks, or their options for pain relief.
Your experiences of feeling ignored, dismissed and shamed after feeling pain in hysteroscopies and other procedures was manifest. We thank you for sharing and we decided to devote these pages to giving you your voice.
We don’t want to stop. We want to hear more. We’d like to build as many voices as we can and support the work of activists including
