Dr. Louise Newson

And I, you know, I often reflect and think, oh, could I be wrong?

What else am I missing?

What other papers are there?

Where's the other side of this?

But it must be like, you know, I know years ago when Richard Dole discovered that smoking was harmful, it took a long time for the establishment to realise and actually warn patients away from smoking.

And then there was all this, should we be doing...

Yeah, and I've been very fortunate in the respect that I've only worked as a GP as a salary doctor.

So my salary was the same regardless of what I prescribed.

I didn't have any sort of, a lot of GPs have investment in their clinic.

So if it's got higher profits, you get some dividends, of course.

And we have these QOFs, which are quality outcome frameworks.

And one of them, and we'll get on to talking about contraception, but one of them was being paid more for long acting reversible contraception LARCs.

And these are the implants or the depo injections that,

For many years, I felt really uncomfortable giving them because I read data that they could induce osteoporosis, especially the Depo-Provera.

And so many years ago, I said, look, I'm not that happy in injecting these women because they're 12 weeks as a contraception, but they'd last in the body probably for even longer.

And doctors didn't like it because there was a template.

If you tick all the boxes and give it, you get paid more money.

And we have to remember that contraception is important.

And that's really clear in my book that I'm not saying no one should have hormonal contraception.

But we also have non-hormonal contraception, which is not pushed in the same way because it doesn't have the same financial benefits.