Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/10)
Character Range: 17463–20331

December 2023.

1.1.3  General practitioners
  For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of general practitioner in subsection 3(1) of the Act, the following medical practitioners are specified:
 (a) a medical practitioner who is undertaking a placement in general practice that is approved by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (the RACGP):
 (i) as part of a training program for general practice leading to the award of Fellowship of the RACGP; or
 (ii) as part of another training program recognised by the RACGP as being of an equivalent standard;
 (b) an eligible non‑vocationally recognised medical practitioner;
 (c) a medical practitioner who is undertaking a placement in general practice as part of the Remote Vocational Training Scheme administered by Remote Vocational Training Scheme Limited;
 (d) a medical practitioner who is undertaking a placement in general practice that is approved by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (the ACRRM):
 (i) as part of a training program for general practice leading to the award of Fellowship of the ACRRM; or
 (ii) as part of another training program recognised by the ACRRM as being of an equivalent standard.
Note: For other medical practitioners who are general practitioners, see the definition of general practitioner in subsection 3(1) of the Act and section 16 of the Health Insurance Regulations 2018.

1.1.4  Meaning of multidisciplinary case conference
  In this Schedule:
multidisciplinary case conference means a process by which a multidisciplinary case conference team carries out all of the following activities:
 (a) discussing a patient's history;
 (b) identifying the patient's multidisciplinary care needs;
 (c) identifying outcomes to be achieved by members of the multidisciplinary case conference team giving care and service to the patient;
 (d) identifying tasks that need to be undertaken to achieve these outcomes, and allocating those tasks to members of the multidisciplinary case conference team;
 (e) assessing whether previously identified outcomes (if any) have been achieved.

1.1.5  Meaning of multidisciplinary case conference team
 (1) In this Schedule, a multidisciplinary case conference team for a patient:
 (a) includes a medical practitioner; and
 (b) either:
 (i) for items 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 735, 739, 743, 747, 750, 758, 825 to 828, 930, 933, 935, 937, 943, 945, 946, 948, 959, 961, 962, 964, 969, 971, 972, 973, 975, 986, 6029 to 6042 and 6064 to 6075—includes at least 2 other members; or
 (ii) for an item mentioned in subclause (3)—includes at least 3 other members; and
 (c) may also include a family member of the patient.
 (2) For the members mentioned in paragraph (b):
 (a) each member must provide a different kind of care or service to the patient; and
 (b) each member must not be an unpaid carer of the