Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 11
12th Report – Menstrual health of girls and young women
Published 4 Mar 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Reproductive health conditions: girls and young women All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
Wellbeing of Women’s period symptom checker should be added to the NHS app. The Government should work with Wellbeing of Women to determine whether conditions in addition to heavy bleeding and pain, such as irregular bleeding, depression and anxiety, might also be captured by the checker. (Recommendation, Paragraph 55)
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 12th Report – Menstrual health of girls and young women (HC 1265), 4 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 26 May 2026 (deadline 4 May 2026).