In this episode:

• Patient-centred contraceptive counselling
• When to safely commence various contraceptive methods after surgical abortion
• When to safely commence various contraceptive methods after medical abortion
• How to distinguish abortion complications from contraceptive side-effect
• What to do at a post-abortion check

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Sexual Health Physician; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW

Total time: 19 mins

Guest: Dr Clare Boerma, General Practitioner

Recommended resources:

• Australian Therapeutic Guidelines Put ‘abortion’ into the search function for 27 evidence-based guidelines on medical/surgical abortion and on the contraceptive options available to women following abortion
• Family Planning New South Wales
• United Kingdom Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare This site has a wealth of information on both contraception and abortion