Medicare and Allied Health have an initiative which allows access to Medicare rebates for Allied health services. The new Medicare allied health and dental care initiative assists chronically ill people who are managed by their GP under an Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) plan to access 5 free services each financial year.
Services can include:
- chiropractor
- dietitian
- mental health nurse
- occupational therapist
- physiotherapist
- podiatrist
- speech pathologist
- and others
For further information and application forms visit http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/
Tagged: Allied Health, Enhanced Primary Care, medical services, medicare, rebate
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National Conference 22-23 March 2010
This national conference over two days will explore the emerging agenda of consumer-centred health care.
It is an event not to be missed for anyone with a passion for reforming our health system so that consumers and their families are at the centre of the system – in practice as well as in rhetoric.
Speakers include
- Christine Bennett, Chair, National Health and Hospital Reform Commission
- Ian Hickie, Executive Director, Brain and Mind Institute, Sydney University
- Just Stoelwinder, Chair, Health Services Management, Monash University
- Maxine Drake, Health Consumers’ Council of WA
- Siegried Drews, Web2Care, Consumer-Directed Care Management
- Philip Davies, Health Systems and Policy, University of Qld
- Barry Welsh, Ministry of Health, New Zealand
- Enrico Coiera, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW
- Coralie Wales, President Chronic Pain Australia
- Russell McGowan, Health Care Consumers Association ACT
- Di Batterham, Westgate Health Co-operative Ltd
- Angela Mackenzie, Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital Vic
- Bruce Rumbold, Palliative Care Unit, LaTrobe University
Key themes include
- Commonwealth reform initiatives: making change happen
- Organising and empowering health consumers
- Medicare Select: policy design and opt-in health plans
- Self-care and self-management in health
- Consumer-directed aged care
- Consumer-centred innovation in mental health
- Consumer-centred innovation in drug and alcohol rehabilitation
- Consumer-centred systems
- Consumer-centred funding arrangements
- Chronic illness consolidated budgets
- Capitation-based payment systems
- Health brokers, care co-ordinators, health info-mediaries
- Community engagement in health reform
- Partnerships between practitioners and consumers
Who Should Attend?
- Health consumers and self-help groups
- Carers and family support organisations
- Health providers and practitioners
- Health services and community sector organisations
- Health researchers and analysts
- Health funds
- Corporates with an interest in better health care
- Governments and policy makers
The venue is Angliss Conference Centre in Melbourne’s CBD, corner of LaTrobe and Kin Streets, close to public transport and a range of accommodation options.
Click here for the program.
Click here to register.
Tagged: aged care, alcohol, conference, Consumer directed care, disability policy, drug, funding, Government policy, health care, medicare, Mental Health, rehabilitation
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