Health Insurance Act 1973 Determination under paragraph 3GC(2)(a) (s3GC(2)/No. 1 of 1997) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

s3GC(2)/ No. 1 of 1997

DETERMINATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 3GC(2)(a)

I, MICHAEL RICHARD LEWIS WOOLDRIDGE, Minister for Health and Family Services, in pursuance of the powers under paragraph 3GC(2)(a) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, hereby determine that the Medical Training Review Panel may compile information relating to:

1. courses and programs of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subparagraph 3GA(5)(a)(i), and being the information as follows:

(a)the number of current and anticipated medical training places in those courses and programs, including the number of those places as categorised by:

(i)type;

(ii)speciality;

(iii)geographical location;

(b)the number of medical training places in those courses and programs which are filled and unfilled;

(c)the adequacy of arrangements and processes for the selection of medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake those courses and programs

(d)the adequacy of arrangements and processes for the review of selection decisions made concerning medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs;

(e)the adequacy of complaint processes available to medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs;

(f)the adequacy of decisions on enrolment applications in those courses and programs, those enrolment applications having been made by medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake those courses and programs;

(g)the adequacy of review of decisions on enrolment applications in those courses and programs, those enrolment applications having been made by medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake those courses and programs;

(h)the number, type and form of complaints made about training and training access made by medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs;

1. medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, courses and programs of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subparagraph 3GA(5)(a)(i), and being the information as follows:

(a)the number of Hospital Medical Officers (where a Hospital Medical Officer is defined as an intern, Resident Medical Officer or other non-specialist hospital medical practitioner) who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, any of those courses and programs, including the number of those Hospital Medical Officers as categorised by:

(i)geographical location; and

(ii)gender;

(b)the number of those Hospital Medical Officers whose application for enrolment in any of those courses and programs was not accepted, including the number of those medical practitioners as categorised by:

(i)geographical location; and

(ii)gender;

(c)the current and anticipated training needs for Hospital Medical Officers who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs; and

(d)any other information on medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs.

Dated this   26^th        day of      June   1997

MICHAEL RICHARD LEWIS WOOLDRIDGE

Minister for Health and Family Services