Abigail McNiven

ORCID: 0000-0001-5041-2095 · 5 papers in corpus · active 2021-2025

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 2
  • editorial 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
article 2025
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners ·doi:10.3399/bjgp.2024.0799

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of those assigned female at birth. Diagnostic journeys can be complex. The average 8-9 years between presenting symptoms and diagnosis has not changed significantly despite guidance. AIM: …

article 2023
·doi:10.3399/bjgp.2023.0141

BACKGROUND: A consultation for the Women's Health Strategy for England in 2022 highlighted a need to understand and develop how general practice can support women's health needs. AIM: To understand the perspectives and experiences of primar…

other 2023
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/s12905-023-02778-2

BACKGROUND: Women's health has historically lacked investment in research and development. Technologies that enhance women's health ('FemTech') could contribute to improving this. However, there has been little work to understand which prio…

other 2021
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners ·doi:10.3399/BJGP.2021.0030

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis affects approximately 6-10% of women, with well documented delays between initial presentation with symptoms and diagnosis. In England, women typically seek help first in primary care, making this setting pivotal i…

editorial 2021
·doi:10.3399/bjgp21x717713

Recent Women's Health Strategies, published in Scotland 1 and announced for England, 2 are a welcome recognition that for too long women have lived within health and care systems designed mostly for men, by men. 2 Their explicit focus on wo…