Aged Care Act 1997 Determination of amount of flexible care subsidy under section 52-1 for pilot services in NSW (ACA Ch. 3 No. 15/2002) (Cth)

ACA. Ch.3 No. 15 / 2002

AGED CARE ACT 1997

Determination of amount of flexible care subsidy under section 52-1

for pilot services in NSW

I, KEVIN JAMES ANDREWS, Minister for Ageing, acting under paragraph 52-1(1)(a) and subsection 52-1(2) of the Aged Care Act 1997, DETERMINE that the amount of

FLEXIBLE CARE SUBSIDY payable in respect of a day and based on the following

matters is as set out below:

For the kind of care specified in paragraph 15.24(1)(b) of the Flexible Care Subsidy

Principles, where this is in accordance with the joint initiatives agreed between the

Department of Health and Ageing, NSW Health and the Approved Providers listed below, the  rate of Flexible Care Subsidy per place per day, commencing on 1 July 2002 or thereafter, is

as follows:

Pilot service	Rate of flexible care subsidy	Approved Provider
Central Sydney ICRS Pilot “Up and at ‘Em”	$65.80	Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) through Lucan Care
Newcastle Innovative Care Enablement (NICE) Service	$102.00	Baptist Community Services
Northern Sydney Innovative Care Rehabilitation Service (NSICRS) pilot	$73.65	NSW Government

For the kind of care specified in paragraph 15.24(1)(d) of the Flexible Care Subsidy

Principles, where this is in accordance with the joint initiatives agreed between the

Department of Health and Ageing, NSW Health and the Approved Providers listed below, the

rate of Flexible Care Subsidy per place per day, commencing on 1 July 2002 or thereafter, is

as follows:

Pilot service	Rate of flexible care subsidy	Approved Provider
Central Coast Short Term Intensive Community Care and Support (STICCS)	$85.61	Hammond Care Group
Greater Murray Dementia Care (GMADC) pilot	$92.46	NSW Government
Northern Rivers Mobile Dementia Rehabilitation Service (NRMDRS)	$83.47	NSW Government

Dated this 25th day of June 2002

KEVIN ANDREWS

Minister for Ageing