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Keira Jenkins

More funding, workforce boost for abortion services

Shannon Fentiman says allowing nurses to prescribe medical abortion drugs will improve access. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Abortion services in Queensland will receive more than $20 million to improve access for women seeking to terminate a pregnancy and to increase the sector's workforce.

Hospitals and health services across Queensland will use the funding to recruit 22 full time nurses, midwives, social workers and senior medical officers.

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