As part of the governments national women's health strategy, it has been recommended teleheath services are extended past 2023.
Once again, we should be all over this, should have health care lobbyists everywhere pushing funding for at home pregnancy care, should have news articles showing what we have, should have regular updates on the technology, social media should be lit up with this news and what we can provide, instead silence abounds...
Just an opinion, again.
TCG
From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05...ed-report-means-for-your-healthcare/102394660
"All recommendations were bipartisan, including calls to increase the Medicare subsidy for inserting long-acting reversible contraception, and for incentives for health professionals to provide sexual and reproductive care.
Among the 36 recommendations, are calls to:
- Increase the Medicare rebate for healthcare workers inserting long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as IUDs, which doctors have said is much too low
- Make medical abortions (also known as abortion pills) more accessible by broadening the rules around who can prescribe and dispense them
- Make more hormonal contraceptives available on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme to make them cheaper for patients
- Establish a subsidy for non-hormonal copper IUDs
- To extend Medicare items for sexual and reproductive telehealth beyond December this year (currently, they are only funded until the end of 2023)
- Establish a national contraception, abortion and sexual health hotline referral service
- Increase birthing-on-country services for First Nations parents
- Ensure maternity care services in non-metro public hospitals are available "
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