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general practitioner's practice nurse (or a community nurse or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker) will co‑ordinate health care services under the plan. The general practitioner will provide oversight throughout.  In cases where a general practitioner is unable to obtain the services of a nurse or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker as a care co‑ordinator, the general practitioner may provide that care co‑ordination.
         In addition to having their health care services overseen and co‑ordinated, some entitled persons in the program who the general practitioner considers are socially isolated and would benefit from a service under a particular community care program aimed at providing the person with more social contact, may be referred by the general practitioner to a MHC assessment agency (an agency under the MRCA Home Care Program) for an assessment as to the suitability of the person for a social support service under that Program.

         Accordingly, two main treatments are provided under the program:

                 GP Care Leadership treatment
                   practice nurse/community nurse/  Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker/care co‑ordination treatment

         An ancillary treatment under the program is:

                     GP referral for social support service assessment

         The main treatments relate to the oversight and co‑ordination of health care services under the entitled person's comprehensive care plan and are in addition to existing treatments available to the entitled person under the Medicare Benefits Schedule and the MRCA Treatment Principles.

         The ancillary treatment may be provided by an approved provider of MRCA Home Care services following a request for social support services from a MHC assessment agency.  The general practitioner will have decided the person is socially isolated and that a social support service might prevent the person from being admitted or re‑admitted to hospital.  The MHC assessment agency will assess the person's suitability for a social support service.

         Note: an identical program for veterans exists under the Treatment Principles made under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

 6A.1A In this Part:

         accepted mental health condition means that the entitled person has a mental health condition for which the person is entitled to be provided with treatment under Part 3 of Chapter 6 of the Act on the basis that the condition is due to a service injury or service disease.

         Note:  The paragraph 1.4.1 definitions of "service injury" and "service disease" include persons with a DRCA disability.
         6A.2 Treatments under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program

           6A.2.1 GP Care Leadership treatment/GP Home Care service (category C) Referral

    6A.2.2 A general practitioner may, under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, provide:

     (a) GP Care Leadership treatment; or

     (b) a GP Home Care service (category C) Referral; or

     (c) both (a) and (b);

    for