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

And as you can imagine, for something that's time-sensitive...

the last thing you want to be doing is shopping around different pharmacies to try and find one that stocks it.

And pharmacies don't do a good job of advertising whether they actually keep the medicine on the shelf or not.

So that's a really important aspect that needs to be better addressed in terms of people navigating the system.

There's a lot of sort of blind spots.

We don't have...

good data on the extent to which there is conscientious objection across the layers of, I guess, prescribing and also dispensing, but that is a possibility.

You're 100% correct that if someone's not willing to provide the service, there is an obligation, an illegal obligation for them to refer someone on and hopefully onto someone that

they know will provide the service rather than a bit of a wild goose chase as to just a referral somewhere else and the person has to sort it out.

In terms of other reasons why someone might not be providing it, I guess, you know, GPs have a choice as to what care they are willing and not willing to provide.

And I guess

Some may have an objection in terms of potential risks.

So there may be someone that approaches them requesting it who has a contraindication or has a risk factor that requires further assessment.

And so there may be a need for a referral onto maybe a specialist in order to assess those risks and maybe advise individuals as to is surgical a better approach here or is medication a suitable approach.

The workforce is a big issue there and it's around the workforce in a broader sense.

So there's been provisions around changing who can prescribe medication abortion.

So there used to be restrictions that had to be a medical doctor.

Those have changed to enable other healthcare practitioners, so nurses or midwives, in order to be able to prescribe the medicines.

But that hasn't necessarily been a coordinated response across the state and territory regulations.

So we have a disconnect in South Australia, as just an example.

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