Practitioners in health law should note that challenges to the validity of NSW Health policy directives regarding Medicare ineligible patient guarantees require expert evidence on the standard of care required by s 71 of the Health Services Act 1997 (NSW), and that repugnancy of specific directive provisions does not necessarily affect the validity of guarantees procured under those directives.
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