Associate Professor Luke Greskowiak

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Health Report · An Alzheimer's blood test is on the way. What could that mean for you? · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So that just gives you a bit of an idea as to the potential impacts.

So of course, the inability to access the service is much more

pronounced for those in regional remote areas than it is for those in major cities.

Just given the fact that you've got many other clinics, I guess, that you could potentially approach, if your usual GP doesn't provide abortion care, then hopefully they can refer you to one that's nearby and minimise the disruption that can be associated with that.

The first issue that comes to mind is around the regulations that exist.

And one of the key things is for the time period of the study that we did, we had one of our states, South Australia...

under the laws that were in place at that point in time, GPs weren't able to provide abortion care at all.

And so we didn't actually analyse any data from South Australia because legally it was prohibited.

And so that gives you an idea as to how impactful, I guess, the legal framework is in terms of impacting abortion care.

Now, thankfully, that

was changed uh subsequent to our study so in 2022 the law was changed and now GPs can can start providing that but as you can imagine that's a big shift for someone who may be working as a GP for for 10 15 years all of a sudden they can now provide a service but there needs to be some training and education and upskilling that goes with that in order to support optimal abortion care one of the other big changes that happened was in 2023

There were some changes to the regulations around the pharmaceutical benefit scheme listing of MS2 step, which is the medicine used for medication abortion.

And there were some unnecessary restrictions that were placed on that in that prescribers had to be separately registered in order to prescribe it.

And pharmacists also had to be registered to be able to dispense it.

So there's no additional training that's required now.

So that's been removed.

So that was a major barrier in the past because of that additional step that people had to go to.

And that just sort of put some people off, I guess, providing that care.

So that fundamental barrier, and it also existed in the context of people going to a pharmacy, many experiences of people rocking up to a pharmacy and the pharmacy says, sorry,

We can't get that medication in because no one working here is registered in order to be able to dispense that medicine.

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