Women’s, maternal and child health

During NAIDOC Week, MPHN’s Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Manager Maxine Little and Primary Care Nurse and Clinical Programs Manager Erin Godwin spoke with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at community events about cervical screening – what they knew, what stopped women from screening and whether the option to self-collect could make a difference. 

For women living with endometriosis and persistent pelvic pain, accessing specialist care can be a long and difficult journey. In the Murrumbidgee, it previously also meant leaving the region. That changed in March 2026 with the opening of the Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinic at Nova Health Co in Wagga Wagga – the Murrumbidgee’s first dedicated service of its kind.