Meaning of health care
6 Meaning of health care
Health care means any kind of health care, including the following services or anything provided as part of any of the following services:
services provided by a health practitioner under the Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law;
hospital services;
mental health services;
pharmaceutical services;
ambulance services;
community health services;
health education services;
welfare services necessary to implement any services referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g);
services provided by dietitians, massage therapists, naturopaths, social workers, speech pathologists, audiologists or audiometrists;
pathology services;
the removal of tissue from an adult's body in accordance with
Part 2 of the Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979.
An assessment conducted by a health care provider for the purpose of assessing current or future health care requirements is taken to be a form of health care.
Example for subsection (2)
An aged care assessment made in relation to care under the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth).
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