Senate Select Committee on Women's Health - Adelaide, SA (part 2 of 2)
5 November 2026
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Senate Select Committee on Women's Health Parliament of Australia
Follow its sittings00:00 - 00:48
Speaker 1
of a clinician on the clinician's desktop, because of stigma and the mention, the reasons that Julie has mentioned. And this would can be particularly in the postnatal period. So, they're just some things to think about with screening. It's not an all-or-nothing, and, depending on what you're offered in Australia, it depends on where you live, because of our federated state and what systems people use. Just in terms of what happens after screening, which is such a valuable question, important question.
This is why, in the opening statement, we talk about the importance of national data collection and collection over time. And I'd suggest just calling on Nicole Reilly here, just to talk about the importance of national data sets and longitudinal data, so you can really evaluate the impacts of screening.
00:48 - 02:26
Speaker 4
Yeah, thanks Nicole. And thanks everybody. I think one of the things that we've discussed as an alliance is what Australian evidence already tells us and the important lessons were able to learn about what happens when governments do invest comprehensively. And we were very fortunate to be able to conduct some evaluations of the National Perinatal Depression Initiative, for example, when we were able to show quite in a really compelling way, that when screening was combined with psychosocial assessment, a really well resourced workforce that was well trained, clear referral pathways and additional funding for those treatment pathways, access to mental health care did increase substantially. Those evaluations also showed that there was a shift towards earlier engagement.
This was just looking at, MBS subsidized mental health care, for example. But we did find that women started to access care more during pregnancy. There was a shift in service delivery towards GPs and allied health professionals rather than just psychiatry, and it really helped to broaden that access to support. So, with well-funded opportunities to conduct evaluation and embed data systems and data capture in a way that is coordinated and less fragmented, there are really exciting opportunities to better understand the trajectories and the pathways that women and families traverse as they manage this very complex landscape of health care.
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