Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00744:front:0:p61
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00744
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 164677–167658

consenting to personal information about the person that is relevant to the person's treatment under the program being provided to bodies such as:

               the Department;

               Contractors to the Department who provide services related to the administration of the Program or who would provide a Home Care service (category C) (social support service) to the person;

               the Department of Human Services (which pays treatment costs for the Department);

               health care providers associated with the person's treatment under the program.

    The general practitioner is to obtain the person's consent, if the person is to participate in the program, record it and store it in a readily retrievable form.

               Note: consent may be recorded and stored in electronic form.

    6A.9.3 Once an entitled person's consent is obtained the general practitioner is to admit the person to the program.  This takes the form of the general practitioner recording in writing (including in electronic form) that the person has been admitted to the program. Participation in the program commences on and from the admission date.

    6A.9.4 The general practitioner is to prepare, in consultation with the person, a Comprehensive Care Plan for the person.

               6A.9.5 A practice nurse (nurse working for the general practitioner) or, if appropriate, a community nurse (nurse working for a DVA‑contracted community nursing provider) or an  Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker (working for the general practitioner) will co‑ordinate care services under the Comprehensive Care Plan (care co‑ordinator).  The general practitioner may need to refer co‑ordination of the Comprehensive Care Plan to a DVA‑contracted community nursing provider if, for example, the general practitioner does not employ a practice nurse.  In some cases the general practitioner may not be able to secure the services of a care co‑ordinator and may need to provide the service themselves but the main role of the general practitioner is to provide oversight of the care co‑ordination under the Comprehensive Care Plan.

    6A.9.6 Part of the monitoring mechanism for the program involves the general practitioner assessing the progress an entitled person is making (progress assessment).  This is to occur toward the end of a period of care by the general practitioner and before the general practitioner provides a further period of care to the person.  More details of the procedure is at 6A.3.  A progress assessment is not a prerequisite to the commencement of an initial period of care.

               6A.9.7 If the general practitioner decides that the entitled person is socially isolated and that because of that situation the person could be reasonably at risk of being hospitalised for a condition in 6A.5.1(1)(a) and that the risk of hospitalisation may be significantly reduced by the provision of a Home Care