The NCW health special interest group aims to give information on health care and to provide an opportunity for women to participate in the debate on health issues at seminars and, in particular, at its regular meetings in Birmingham in February, June and November each year.
  
Children's health - whose responsibility? A one-day seminar on maternity services is being planned for  6 September 2007 in Birmingham. [MORE]

The June 2006 conference at Birmingham City Hospital was on [MORE].  (This seminar had four CPD credits agreed by the Royal College of Physicians.)

A member of group who represents NCW on the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Consumer Forum gives reports to the committee on the activities of the College. 

The committee is also doing follow-up work on three NCW health resolutions - on the fortification of flour with folic acid, the care of the elderly, and sudden infant deaths.  Other topics addressed during the year have been family planning, the 'morning-after' pill, respite for carers, the merging of primary care trusts into larger units, the nutritional needs of the elderly, the paucity of local pharmacies, hygiene in hospitals, and avian flu

Members of the committee represent NCW at :

   •   the British Society against Sexually Transmitted
            diseases
   •   the Sex Education Council 
   •   the Association for the Improvement of Maternity
             Services 
   •   the Royal College of Obstetricians and
             Gynaecologists Consumer Forum