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PART 6 — PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS

6.1 Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
6.1.1 The Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Part I of the Scheme prepared under section 91 of the Act) relates to the supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits to entitled persons by community pharmacists as defined in that Scheme.

6.2 Eligibility under the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
6.2.1 A person is eligible to receive Pharmaceutical Benefits under the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme if that person holds:

         (a) a "White Card" " for a war‑caused injury or disease, or other specifically listed conditions or for a determined condition except a determined residential care condition of an entitled person receiving residential care; or

       (b) a Gold Card; or

       (c) a Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Card.

PART 6A — COORDINATED VETERANS' CARE PROGRAM

 6A.1 Outline
         The "Coordinated Veterans' Care Program" (program) is an initiative that aims to improve the health of a class of entitled persons so they have fewer hospital admissions.

      The entitled persons are:

               Gold Card holders with complex care needs due to diagnosis of a particular chronic health condition (set out in Principle 6A.5); and

               White Card holders with an accepted mental health condition with complex care needs due to the diagnosis of that mental health condition as a chronic health condition (set out in Principle 6A.5).

         The element of the program intended to reduce hospital admissions is external oversight of a person's health regimen for a period of care of 3 months (carried over to consecutive periods of 3 months if the treatment is proving positive).

         The oversight will be performed by a general practitioner and the general practitioner'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).

         Essentially the general practitioner will prepare a comprehensive care plan for the entitled person and the 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 VHC assessment agency (an agency under the