National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1970.*
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THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the
Dated this twenty-second day of October, 1970.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health.
Amendments of the National Health Regulations
“Part IIIa.—Assistance by the Commonwealth towards Medical and Hospital Benefits (Regulation 20a).”
and inserting in their stead the words—
“Part IIIa.—Assistance by the Commonwealth towards Medical and Hospital Benefits (Regulations 20a-20B). “.
“20b.—(1.) In the next succeeding sub-regulation, a reference to a medical practitioner, in relation to a referring of a patient to a specialist, shall be read as including a reference to—
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a ) where the specialist to whom the patient is referred is an ophthalmologist—a registered optometrist or a registered optician; and(
b ) where the referring arises out of a dental service—a registered dentist.
“(2.) Subject to sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, where an item in the First Schedule to the Act specifics a medical service that is to be rendered by a consultant physician or a specialist in the practice of his specialty to a patient who has been referred to him, the patient shall, for the purposes of the item, be referred by a medical practitioner in the following manner, namely, by the medical practitioner furnishing the prescribed information concerning the referral to the consultant physician or specialist, as the case may be, on an instrument made available to him by the Department of Health for the purpose.
“(3.) For the purpose of the last preceding sub-regulation, the prescribed information is—
(a) the name and address of the medical practitioner, registered optometrist, registered optician or registered dentist who is referring the patient to a consultant physician or specialist;
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Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1954, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 71: 1958, No. 63; 1962, Nos. 55, 70 and 113; 1965, Nos. 17, 94 and 185; 1966, No. 99; 1967, No. 86; 1969, Nos. 91 and 220; and 1970, No.
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b ) the name and address of the patient;(
c ) the name of the consultant physician or specialist to whom the patient is being referred;(
d ) if the patient is being referred by a medical practitioner whether the patient is being referred for an opinion, for immediate treatment or for continued management of the patient’s condition at the time the form is signed;(
e ) if the patient is being referred by a registered optometrist or a registered optician to an opthalmologist for opthalmological services—that the patient is being referred for ophthalmological services; and(
f ) if the referring arises out of a dental service rendered to the patient by a registered dentist—that the patient is being referred for medical attention arising out of a dental service.
“(4.) A medical practitioner, registered optometrist, registered optician or registered dentist, shall be taken not to have referred a patient to a consultant physician or specialist in the manner prescribed by sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation unless be has signed the instrument containing the information referred to in that sub-regulation and has stated on it the date on which he signed it.”.
(2.) The amendment of the National Health Regulations effected by the last preceding sub-regulation applies to and in relation to a referring of a patient to a consultant physician or specialist on the date of commencement of these Regulations or on any subsequent date.
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