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ServicesDepartment); and
         (c) is not a disqualified health care provider in the terms mentioned in paragraph 7.1B of the Principles.

    Note: under paragraph 7.1B a disqualified health care provider is a person whose services would not, under section 19B of the Health Insurance Act 1973, attract a medicare benefit.

    "social worker (mental health)" means a social worker:

           (a) who has been given a provider number in respect of being a social worker; and

           (b) who, in the opinion of an employee of, or consultant to, the Department or the Human ServicesDepartment, has appropriate qualifications in social work in the area of mental health and who practises as a social worker in the area of mental health.

    "social worker (general)" means a social worker who in the opinion of an employee of, or consultant to, the Department, has appropriate qualifications in social work and practises as a social worker.

    "sub‑contractor" means, in relation to the Veterans' Home Care Program, a State, Territory or Local Government, or incorporated organisation, or person, engaged by an approved provider or the Commission to provide a Home Care service (category A) or a Home Care service (category B) or a Home Care service (category C) to an entitled person.

    "subsequent period of care", in relation to the provision of care by a general practitioner to an entitled person, means a period of care that may be provided by the general practitioner after the expiry of a period of care that has already been provided by the general practitioner to the entitled person.

    Note: a subsequent period of care must be approved by the general practitioner (see: 6A.3).  A period of care by a general practitioner that is not a "subsequent period of care" would be the first period of care provided to a person under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program (Program) and the first period of care provided to a person under the Program by a new general practitioner for the person i.e. where the person has changed general practitioners.

    "Tier 1 Hospital" means a hospital in the category described as Tier 1 in 2.1 of the RPPPs.

    "transition care" has the meaning it has in section 106 of the Subsidy Principles 2014.

    "Vertical Platform Lift" means a lift installed adjacent to vertical walls, which travels up and down, with the platform finishing flat against the floor, and the user embarking/disembarking onto an even surface.

    "veteran" has the same meaning as it has in sections 80 and 81 of the Act and includes a person with a DRCA disability.

         Note: In sections 80 and 81 of the Act, "veteran" means a person:

              (a) who is, because of section 7 of the Act, taken to have rendered