Dr. Catherine Conlon:

I had some engagement with that dimension of the service. The HSE has a constant, ongoing mechanism whereby it engages with Google so that if a person googles "abortion information from Ireland" it ensures that the My Options service is the top search return. Our study found that is what most people used in order to access a service. It also addresses the risk of people encountering rogue agencies. With My Options they also have engaged with GPs. One of the concerns has been the number of providing GPs who make their names available to the My Options list. We might have 1,000 GP providers - a portion of them will make their names available to the My Options list when you phone, a portion of them will only make their names available for registered patients at their surgeries, and a portion of them will not make their names available to the My Options list at all. Work is under way to try to create the conditions for more GPs to feel more comfortable about making their names available to the open list on My Options. Some efforts are under way to try to make that a more effective service.