The Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support Network (AusCAPPS) improves equitable access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and early medical abortion (EMA) services in primary care. To support the expansion of best-practice service delivery across Australia, the AusCAPPS Network connects EMA and LARC providers through peer-networking opportunities and access to resources and training.

This co-designed project aims to support the use of effective contraception among women at high risk of unintended pregnancy by introducing private consultations, contraceptive counselling and referral services in a community pharmacy setting.

Australian women living in rural and regional areas experience many barriers to accessing long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and early medical abortion (EMA) services. The ORIENT Study is investigating how the quality, availability and accessibility of LARC (including intrauterine devices and implants) and EMA might be improved using a nurse-led model of care in general practice.

Contraception enables women to attain the number and spacing of births they desire – crucial for health, economic and social wellbeing – yet many women lack access to information or services to achieve this postnatally and are at risk of unintentionally falling pregnant again soon after birth. Midwives are well-placed to provide contraception information and care, yet this is not common practice in Australia. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of a comprehensive midwifery-led model of contraceptive care to increase access to and uptake of contraception.

Preconception care is about enhancing the health of women and pregnancy outcomes by managing risk factors that can lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes. To deliver effective preconception care in general practice, it is important that general practitioners can easily identify women who are at high-risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. This project aims to determine the feasibility of identifying reproductive-aged women at high risk of poor pregnancy outcomes through the review of electronic medical records.

This project builds on our early qualitative work investigating the barriers and enablers to the delivery and uptake of preconception care in general practice to develop, pilot, and evaluate an innovative model of care in general practice to deliver practice nurse-led preconception care.