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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 349

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 349

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 349

Issued by Authority of the Minister for Human Services and Health

National Health Act 1953

National Health Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.

Between 1 May 1993 and 1 September 1994 a number of government nursing homes have been prescribed by regulation as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act. This amended regulation is to prescribe the first group of three New South Wales government nursing homes as adjusted fee government nursing homes.

Currently, proprietors of government nursing homes receive a fixed rate of benefit for each nursing home patient. The rate of benefit paid in respect of such patients has been frozen since 1985. In the 1992 Federal Budget, the Government announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) and modified standard aggregate module (SAM) funding system which applies only to adjusted fee government nursing homes. The CAM:modified SAM funding system will result in higher levels of benefit being paid to the proprietors of nursing homes that become adjusted fee government nursing homes. In order for existing government nursing homes to become adjusted fee government nursing homes and thereby be brought into the CAM: modified SAM funding system, they must be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.

Groups of government nursing homes throughout Australia have been progressively prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purpose of the Act and the transfer of homes in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT has now been completed and South Australia largely completed.

The purpose of the National Health Regulations (Amendment) is to prescribe the first group of three government nursing homes in New South Wales as adjusted fee government nursing homes with effect from 1 November 1994.

The nursing homes prescribed are set out in the Attachment. Schedule 5 of the Regulations is now a consolidation of the list of adjusted fee government nursing homes.

The Regulations commenced on 1 November 1994.

ATTACHMENT

Name And Address of Nursing Home

     

Approval No.

Carrington Centennial

Nursing Home

Werombie Road

CAMDEN NSW 2570



1483 S

Lottle Stewart Nursing Home

40 Stewart Street

DUNDAS NSW 2117



1473 S

Queen Victoria Nursing Home

Thirlmere Way

PICTON NSW 2571



1476 S

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