Norman Swan
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15,981 appearances
143 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard 2d ago
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is it because that there's better
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identification of iron deficiency, are people more aware of it or is it something else?
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Do we have
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of where people are getting?
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the prescriptions from?
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Is it from JPs?
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Is it from
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Obstetricians, gynecologists, is there a breakdown on where the prescriptions are coming from or where people are actually getting it done?
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Gazat, you found in the study that there appears to be an equity or an access issue.
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So women who have a concession card accounted for a lower proportion of these IV infusions, iron infusions over time.
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Can you just talk us through the equity and access issue here?
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filled the first part of the script but they didn't fill the second part and that might be a cost factor.
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Gazat Cassie, who's a senior research fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute at the Women and Children's Hospital.
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No, I think probably we're better at recognizing it and actually treating people.
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I hope that is what it is.
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I think perhaps there is a small proportion where, you know, as Gazat says
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Are they clinically indicated?
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That's what this study hasn't looked at.
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But Norman, the fact that there's no MBS item number that you have to pay completely out of pocket if you're having this done in a GP practice is just still quite abhorrent.
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And the people who suffer most, as we've just heard, are concession cardholders.
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