Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Smith points out, we are looking at how we can bolster and strengthen women's health care across the board, not just in specific clinics, like endo clinics, or in specific medicines but across the board. We are looking at how we can make sure that women get the health care they need, when they need and where they need it. We've already seen how women are benefitting from 60-day dispensing and through lowering the price of medicines. We know that women visit the GP more often and often have higher out-of-pocket costs. Women will be a big beneficiary of our biggest investment in bulk-billing, which will start from 1 November. We'll also open 50 more Medicare urgent care clinics so that four in five Australians will live within 20 minutes of an urgent care clinic across Australia. These will support women and their families in accessing the care they need when they need it. We're also investing $1 billion to deliver more free public mental health services, which will also support women, including younger women.