We're on a mission to close the gender pain gap

Because, like you, we know what it's like trying to find help for our female-specific health concerns.

We've been told again and again that our pain is normal. That it's just part of being a woman. That our test results are fine, even when nothing feels fine. That it's all in our head. But the truth is, none of this is normal. We've just been told it is.

The gender health gap is the phenomenon where our gender shapes our healthcare. It's why so many of us are left in pain, navigating a system that wasn't built for us.

Our questions go unanswered. Our symptoms aren't taken seriously. Our concerns get dismissed.

When we turned to the women in our lives, the stories were everywhere and they were the same.

Pelvic pain dismissed. PMDD reduced to PMS. Endometriosis missed for years. Menopause brushed off. Symptoms with no diagnosis, minimised as nothing.

Over and over, women fighting to be heard, and too often walking away without answers.

We refused to accept it as normal.

So we built Hazel.

A specialist women's health clinic, designed around the care we've always wished we'd had. One where we don't have to fight to be believed. Where what we're experiencing is investigated, not waved away. Where the under-studied and underfunded corners of women's health finally get taken seriously. Where a diagnosis isn't the end of a battle, it's the beginning of real support.

This is what closing the gender pain gap actually looks like. Not a campaign. Not a hashtag. A new model of care built to change the experience of women's health, one person at a time, and all of us together.

We listened. And we keep listening. To the women around us, to the patients we've spent years building care for, and to our own experiences along the way.

Because too many women have spent too long being told their pain, symptoms, and concerns don't matter.

— Grace and the Hazel team x