The state’s sole clinic for low-cost abortions will open in Hobart by the end of the month.
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Melbourne-based Hampton Park Women's Health Care will take referrals to the clinic from Monday for the procedure which will cost women $475.
Women will be able to self-refer to the service without having to first go through a general practitioner.
Contact details to be provided on the Health and Human Services Department’s website.
The clinic will operate on a fortnightly basis from November 28.
Tasmanian women have been without a low-cost abortion provider for 11 months after the last provider pulled out of the state.
The government missed its October deadline for a new service to be in place due to commercial negotiations between a facility and the new provider.
Health Department secretary Michael Pervan said the cost would be reviewed in the future to take into account medical rebates and costs.
“But the government has committed that the service will remain affordable,” he said.
“Based on an assessment of likely demand, the service will initially comprise fortnightly clinics with the first on the 28th of November, this may increase to weekly, depending on demand.”
The government has committed that the service will remain affordable.
- Health Department secretary Michael Pervan
Mr Pervan said the Patient Travel Assistance Scheme was available to women who had to travel from other parts of the state for the service.
Labor health spokeswoman Sarah Lovell said the stress and anxiety many women faced through seeking an abortion had been compounded over the year through feelings of shame in having to travel interstate for the procedure, away from families and support networks.
She said Tasmania was recognised as having the country’s best abortion laws but one of the worst levels of access.
Ms Lovell said the procedure was time-sensitive and hoped the new service did not provide obstacles which hindered this.