00:02Fee McRae has lived with endometriosis and complex pelvic pain for about a decade.
00:09It still impacts everything.
00:12But the 32-year-old has found some things help, like a TENS machine.
00:17I'm medicated constantly. I have procedures every six months.
00:22She co-chaired Victoria's inquiry into women's pain.
00:25It made 27 recommendations to improve women's care, including more research funding, improved training for health providers and clearer referral
00:35pathways.
00:36One of the biggest takeaways from the inquiry for me was the sheer amount of dismissal experience.
00:43Ms McRae and other advocates are concerned there's still no action plan for turning the recommendations into reality.
00:50If we're not continuing the rollout of these recommendations, that's just continuing the pattern of dismissal, right?
00:58That is the absolute critical piece that allows us to turn the report from recommendations to action.
01:06Ms Hasler says the inquiry was significant.
01:10And so now the responsibility is on government and whoever that is, the end of November, to implement those recommendations.
01:18The government says it's committed to the work.
01:22It's completed some recommendations, such as a women's pain standard.
01:26The opposition says it has no plans to reduce supports that are working for women,
01:31but stopped short of committing to the recommendations, saying if elected, it will examine the findings.
01:38Dr Marilla Druitt, who worked on the inquiry, says change in healthcare is often slow.
01:44People have trouble with change because complex problems need complex solutions and pain is complex.
01:51Women with pain are waiting.
01:53Dr Marilla Druitt, who works on programmes, and also leaves us warmly,
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