National Women’s Health Strategy

National Women’s Health Strategy: Release of the Monitoring and Reporting Framework and Baseline Report

Monday 8 September 2025

Today the released its monitoring and reporting framework and baseline report.

The Strategy is designed to improve the health of women and girls and reduce inequities between different population groups. The strategy aims to do so by focusing on a range of specific actions across five key priority areas:

Maternal, sexual and reproductive health
Healthy aging
Chronic health conditions and preventative health
Mental health
Health impacts of violence against women

The monitoring and reporting framework allows the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to determine how progress is being made across the five priority areas and sub-actions. The framework proposes to do this in two ways: (1) through an implementation monitoring effort, which will assess the implementation of strategy actions through stakeholder consultation and evidence assessment, and (2) through outcome reporting, which will map progress on each of the measures of success against publicly available data sources.

On the implementation side, the monitoring framework will gauge whether progress in a certain priority area requires stronger focus, is making some progress, or whether there is evidence of meaningful progress.

On the outcome side, the framework will regularly assess each outcome indicator against available data source(s) and data timeliness, while also reviewing whether progress for priority groups is being made.

The framework will build off the baseline report, also published today, allowing a benchmark to assess implementation and outcomes over the remaining years of the strategy to 2030.

��TV is identified as a key stakeholder in the implementation phase, alongside a number of other medical colleges. The College will also be kept apprised of progress on the strategy through regular reporting on the framework through its membership in the National Women’s Health Advisory Council.

The baseline report provides a sobering insight into the progress of the Strategy to date (up to mid-2024). Acting as a benchmark for the remainder of the strategy period, the baseline report shows that most actions in the five priority areas are underway. Ten actions are judged to have shown some progress. While three action areas are judged to be showing meaningful progress (reducing the prevalence and impact of endometriosis and associated chronic pelvic pain; adopting a multi-faceted approach to support women and girls with eating disorders; building research capacity and capability in women’s health), there is still a long way to go to meet the intended outcomes of the strategy by 2030. The benefit of the baseline report and the monitoring framework is that it allows progress to be more discretely tracked and allow for resources to be allocated to areas that require additional progress.

The College welcomes the release of the framework and report, and it looks forward to collaborating with other stakeholders included in the strategy to deliver better health outcomes for women and girls by 2030.