Plan Suspension
Question
Senator STEELE-JOHN: Could I take you now to plan suspension? Ms Wood: Sorry, did you want the information now on the various fields. Senator STEELE-JOHN: Yes, let's do that. Ms Hawke: The types of essential expertise that have been identified for the technical advisory group are First Nations diversity assessment; neurodevelopment and/or autism; allied health, preferably occupational therapy and functional needs assessment; paediatric/child development; psychosocial disability/mental health; disability and rehabilitation medicine with expertise in degenerative conditions; assessment, design and statistical expertise; lived experience expertise; and administrative law. Other areas of expertise that were identified as being beneficial include general practitioners, primary care nurses, midwives, best practice child development and expertise sourced from other statutory compensation schemes. Senator STEELE-JOHN: Thank you. I noticed that there's not a reference to chronic illness in that criteria. Ms Hawke: There's allied health, which would cover chronic illness as well as disability and rehabilitation medicine, including expertise in degenerative conditions. Mr Comley: As well as general practice, which deals a lot with chronic conditions. Senator STEELE-JOHN: Is what you've just read out there a document that you can table for us? Mr Comley: I don't think we can table it, because I suspect it's embedded in the advice to the minister. Obviously, it will be in the Hansard, but on behalf of the department I'm happy to offer to extract that information and have it made available to you. Senator STEELE-JOHN: If you could, that would be great, thank you very much. That's useful. The bill allows for plans to be suspended if a person is not contactable, but the bill does not define what 'non-contactable' actually means. How will it be defined in the implementation of this power?
Answer
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