Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, , 1:27:28 to 1:29:51
Officials provide data on the 5.2 million dollar scholarship program for long-acting reversible contraceptive training. They also report on the reach of the national menopause and perimenopause campaign, citing millions of social media impressions and website visits.
Topics: Health, Government advertising
Speakers: Dr Liz Develin, Ellie Whiteaker, Chris Gatenby, Unknown Speaker
Chair, I've just got a couple of questions for the TGA.
Okay.
Through you, Chair, whilst the TGA makes the table, we have the answers to the two questions we took around, so we're happy to provide those when you're please do, that would be great.
Yeah, go ahead.
Um your first question was regarding the uh scholarships and training programs around the long acting and reversible contraceptive. So that was a 5.2 million dollar program that Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia is running on behalf of the government. So we have at 1,865 practitioners have completed scholarship applications, one 1,604 scholarships have been approved, 934 practitioners have completed their training. And to give you a sense of the nature of the practitioners, that includes 620 general practitioners, 175 registered nurses, 102 midwives and 34 nurse practitioners, and three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners. We're also delighted with the results in terms of the Metro and Rural Regional Split because 73 63% of practitioners were in MM2 to seven areas, and we have also funded 174 uh travel scholarships to make sure that people were able to access the training. Your other question related to uh the results of the national menopause and perimenopause campaign. Um I think I referenced a figure which was close to 500,000. So that is the social click. So that is where people are visiting our website to go and particularly find further information, which was really the call to action in the campaign, as in come and find more information. So that figure was 419,517. In terms of social media impressions, so that is how often social ads uh have been shown, that is over 53 million times. The digital video impressions, so that's how often the videos have been shown, that is over 40 million since the campaign has been running. We've had uh over 250,000 Google search clicks. The total views of the website is 861,000, and the placement of the 30 second advertisement on free to air has been over 12,000 times.
That's some pretty pretty impressive numbers. So thank you very much for sharing that. Senator Gainby.