Last year, the government announced that it would renew its Women’s Health Strategy to help improve equality and access.

“Whether it’s being passed from one specialist to another for conditions like endometriosis or PCOS... it’s clear the system is failing women, and it shouldn’t be happening,” Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said at the time.

Now, a menstrual leave petition is approaching the threshold for a parliamentary debate (100,000 signatures).

Here, we spoke to Justyna Strzeszynska, women’s health expert and founder and CEO of AI-powered period care app Joii, about what that might mean.

What are people asking to be debated?

The petition is asking calling on the government to “introduce statutory paid menstrual leave of up to three days per month for people with conditions such as endometriosis and adenomyosis”.

They noted this was put in place in Portugal in........

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