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financial responsibility for treatment provided to an entitled person by the health care provider the subject of the document.

 Note: the DVA documents called Fee Schedules set out amounts the Department will pay for health care services and can designate whether a service required the prior approval of the Commission before it could be provided.

    "flexible care" has the meaning it has in section 49‑3 of the Aged Care Act 1997.

    "general practitioner" has the same meaning as "general practitioner" has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

    "Gold Card" means the identification card (also known as the Veteran Card) provided by the Department to a person who is eligible under the Act for treatment, subject to these Principles, for all injuries or diseases.

    "GP Care Leadership treatment" means treatment provided by a general practitioner to an entitled person, under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, comprised of the following:

(a) preparing and managing the Comprehensive Care Plan for the person under the Program;

(b)  overseeing a practice nurse in the implementation of the  Comprehensive Care Plan — where a practice nurse and not a community nurse or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker or the general practitioner co‑ordinates treatment under the Comprehensive Care Plan (Practice Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment);

(c)  referring the person to a DVA‑contracted community nursing provider for Community Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment or to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Care Co‑ordination treatment, if appropriate;

         (d)  performing such other functions under the program that the general practitioner has under the Notes for Coordinated Veterans' Care Program Providers.

    "GP Home Care service (category C) Referral" means treatment comprised of a general practitioner preparing a written document that refers an entitled person, who the general practitioner has admitted to and is treating under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, to a VHC assessment agency for assessment for a Home Care service (category C) under the Veterans' Home Care Program and which:

(a) is in the form, if any, approved by the Commission; and

(b) is sent to the VHC assessment agency, including as a facsimile message.

    "HACC Review Agreement (National Partnership) service" means a service of home or community care that could be, or could have been, provided to a person under an agreement between the Commonwealth and a State or the Northern Territory — being an agreement made under the Home and Community Care Act 1985 but deemed to be a National Partnership Agreement in the context of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations of 2008, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

"health care provider" means a person who provides treatment to