Dr. Caitriona Henchion:

First of all, a lot of it is about the geographical spread and making sure that services are spread across all of the units. We must try to incentivise GPs and take away barriers that might be stopping them from opting in. There are other things we can do, including for example, creating a faculty of sexual health that would provide a peer support network for doctors who are providing services who may be geographically more isolated and who could be linked into a bigger group for support. Another thing we could consider would require legislative change. In the legislation at the moment, a medical practitioner is defined very distinctly as a doctor but there are lots of other parts of the health service in which specialist nurses or midwives are included in that category. That would be an enabling part of the legislation, if that was to be done, which would help to broaden the base and protect services into the future.