Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800:front:0:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800
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Character Range: 16783–19765

at the premises to entitled persons;

               but does not include any of the following premises:

         (c) premises conducted by or on behalf of the State;
           (d) a public hospital or health service under the control of a public health organisation;
    (e) a private hospital;
    (f) a nursing home;
    (g) a residential rehabilitation establishment.

    "contracted private hospital" means a private hospital with which the Commission has entered into arrangements for the care and welfare of entitled persons.
    "convalescent care" means a period of medically prescribed convalescence for an entitled person who is recovering from an acute illness or an operation.

    "Coordinated Veterans' Care Program" means the treatment program of that name set out in Part 6A of these Principles and in the Notes for Coordinated Veterans' Care Program Providers that aims to reduce the need for hospitalisation among Gold Card holders and eligible White Card holders of the veteran and defence force community and improve their social well‑being.  In particular the program has the following main features:
          assessment – a general practitioner (GP) will assess a person with complex care needs due to chronic disease to see if the person would benefit from the clinical care services under the program and ascertain if the person meets the program's eligibility criteria;
          consent – a person needs to consent to participation in the program and the GP needs to record that consent.  As treatment is being provided it is the GP's responsibility to ensure a potential participant in the program understands the nature of the program and that the person's personal details that are relevant to the person's treatment under the program may be provided to bodies and individuals such as the Department, the Human Services Department and health care providers, who have a need for the information in connection with the person's treatment under the program;
          care plan – the GP will prepare a Comprehensive Care Plan for a person the GP admits to the program;
          consultation – the person will be consulted in the preparation of the care plan and its review;
          implementation and co‑ordination – the GP's practice nurse (or a community nurse via a DVA‑contracted community nursing provider, or an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker, if more appropriate) will implement the care plan and, in particular, co‑ordinate services under the plan.

       "Coordinated Veterans' Care Program treatment" means:

  (a) GP Care Leadership treatment; or
  (b) Practice Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment; or
         (c) Community Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment; or
            (d) Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Care Co‑ordination treatment.

    "co payment", in relation to the MRCA Home Care Program, means an amount of money an approved provider or a sub‑contractor is