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methods and advisory services;
       (d) methods of payment and conditions of service for medical and other practitioners using hospital facilities and other associated or related services, including charging practitioners for use of hospital facilities and resources, and the effect of these matters on the level of services provided;
       (e) the effect of current financing methods (including health insurance) on hospital utilisation including the provision of medical services in hospitals;
       (f) the relationship between community based health and related services and hospitals;
       (g) the value of accreditation of hospitals;
       (h) existing and possible Commonwealth/State arrangements for meeting operating costs of hospitals and associated or related services; and
       (i) any other matters of significant importance to (1) to (4) above:
AND, without restricting the nature of your recommendations, We further direct you, in making your recommendations, to have regard to the scope for rationalisation of facilities, services and resources of all types (including those provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, private hospitals, medical practitioners and other health-care practitioners) and to any barriers to the achievement of such rationalisation:
AND We appoint you the same JAMES HARDIE JAMISON to be the Chairman of the said Commissioners:
AND We direct that, for the purpose of taking evidence, two Commissioners shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum and may proceed with the inquiry under these Letters Patent:
AND We declare that you are authorized to conduct your inquiry into the matters mentioned in paragraphs (1) to (4) in combination with any inquiry into the same matters that you are directed or authorised to make by any Commission issued, or in pursuance of any order or appointment made, by any of Our Governors of Our States:
AND We further declare that, for the purpose of conducting your inquiry, you are authorized to have regard to any evidence received by, and any matters submitted to, the Commissioners appointed, by Letters Patent issued in Our name by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on 29 August 1979, to inquire into and report upon certain matters relating to the costs of hospitals and associated or related institutions and services as if the evidence had been received by you, or those matters had been submitted to you, as the case may be, for the purposes of your inquiry:
AND We require you as expeditiously as possible to make your inquiry and -
       (j) not later than 30 June 1980, to furnish to our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia an interim report of the results of your inquiry; and
       (k) not later than 31 December 1980 or such later date as We may be pleased to fix, to furnish to Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia a