The gender gap in heart disease we've heard about today. It's costing women's lives. And that groundbreaking report in 2019, 'Bias and biology: The heart attack gender gap', by the British Heart Foundation, really opened my eyes to what was happening, or what was not happening, in the treatment of heart disease in women: heart attacks in women being misdiagnosed as anxiety or panic attacks. It was spelt out to me in this way: cardiac specialists have traditionally been overwhelmingly men, so the needs of women amongst the speciality itself have been overlooked for too long. 

Migraine—I was talking to a group interested in pushing the agenda forward on migraine recently. It's far more common in women than in men; perhaps a third of women will experience migraine, compared with 13 per cent of men. There may be some underreporting by men, but the higher level among women is likely to be as a result of hormonal factors, genetic differences and so on. 

One hundred and eighty thousand women in Wales have asthma. Figures suggest that asthma kills twice as many women as men. This is a women's health issue that needs addressing. One charity has said that women have been failed by a lack of research into links between hormone changes and asthma. Asthma + Lung UK said that women are stuck in a cycle of being in and out of hospital and, in some cases, losing their lives because of a lack of research. Research in itself is an area where there needs to be a new focus on women. Russell George touched on this. Clinical trials have traditionally been focused at men, older men, and not enough women taking part.

I can see that time is running out. We as parliamentarians today are making this demand to Government. Despite what it's promised, we're making that demand to insist that the promises made now are put into action. I know that a coalition of organisations has come together to put together its case for a women's health strategy, as we're calling for today. It's time to take action on this. We've talked a lot about health inequalities recently in this Senedd. This is yet another example of inequality, perhaps the most glaring of inequalities that we simply have to stamp out.