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On Tuesday 3 November, we officially launched Leading Safe Choices at the House of Lords. This incredibly exciting project, under the directorship of RCOG Vice-President for Strategic Development, Professor Lesley Regan, presents an opportunity to confront two major issues that have persistently hindered progress in women’s health: contraception and abortion. 

Women need clear, evidence-based information to break through the conflicts of opinion and confusion about the menopause. This is all about informed choice.

An article in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) published today (21 October 2015) reviews the current state of obstetric care for women who are asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.

I am very pleased to announce the publication of the revised RCOG Green-top Guideline Female Genital Mutilation and its Management (no. 33) last Friday.  It has been around two years in the making and I would like to acknowledge the hard work of our guideline authors and contributors.  

Every year between 50,000 to 100,000 women worldwide are affected by obstetric fistula and more than two million women are currently living with untreated obstetric fistula in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.  

It has been over 10 years since the UNFPA and its partners, of which the RCOG is one, launched its global Campaign to End Fistula in 2003.

I am very pleased to report that the 2015 World Congress in Brisbane, Australia was a great success. 

We must all take responsibility to end FGM, by Professor Janice Rymer, King’s College London.

When women become victims of war, by Dr Mark Slack, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK.