Where you live can determine your access to key health services. Here's what experts say needs to change.
A Senate inquiry has handed down its report on the accessibility of contraceptives and abortion services.GPs have called for the urgent implementation of the report's recommendations.
The inquiry also recommended that states and the federal government work together to ensure maternity services operate in non-metropolitan hospitals and lift restrictions on medical abortion.How can Australia improve accessibility and affordability of sexual and reproductive healthcare? The report also recommends that the federal government work with service providers "to increase birthing on country initiatives and other culturally appropriate continuity of care models".Labor senators backed the report and its recommendations, although they noted many of the issues raised by the inquiry were state and territory matters and that some issues raised were matters of conscience for MPs.
"These recommendations will have a real impact on people's access to reproductive health, and we welcome the unanimous support for them from the committee."Monash University's head of general practice, Danielle Mazza, saw "profound and disturbing inequities" in Australia's sexual health care field.
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