A reassessment occurs when a client who has received compensation under both the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1971 or the Commonwealth Employees' Compensation Act 1930 seeks additional compensation where their overall degree impairment has increased.
Subject | Repatriation Transport – Travel during Leave Days from Hospital |
Audience Covered | HEALTH APPROVALS RAP & TRANSPORT (HART), VETERANS’ ACCESS NETWORK (VAN), HOSPITALS & TRANSPORT PROGRAMS |
Issues Covered | When an entitled person travels to and from home during hospital approved ‘leave days’. |
Related HIMNs | Nil. |
Action Required | Advice to be considered when proce |
Subject | Repatriation Transport – Travel for Treatment – National Centre for Veterans’ Healthcare (NCVH) and Accommodation at Fussell House |
Issues Covered | When an entitled person travels to attend treatment at Concord Repatriation General Hospital’s (RGH) National Centre for Veterans’ Healthcare (NCVH), and is requiring transport assistance and / or accommodation including onsite at Fussell House. |
Audience | HEALTH APPROVALS RAP & |
Partner’s age-based number under s234(2) of the MRC Act of the MRCA where the date of the member’s death is on or after 1 March 2021 | |||
Partner’s age next birthday on the date of the member’s death | Partner’s age based number | Partner’s age next birthday on the date of the member’s death | |
This table converts a weekly compensation following death payment to a lump sum.
Partner’s age-based numbers for use under s 236(5) of the MRCA where the date of the member's death is on or after 1 March 2021 | |||||||
Partner’s age next birthday on the date of the member’s death | Male Partner | ||||||
Measurements of Forced Expiratory Volume over one second (FEV1) and Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), performed with a spirometer or equivalent instrument, are used to assess ventilatory function under table 2.1 of the DRCA Guide.
Table 2.1 requires that ‘three readings of FEV1 and FVC should be performed and the largest of these results used to calculate impairment’.
On 19 August 2020, the Client Services Committee (CSC) endorsed a new approach for clients with a Spinal Cord Injury.
Spinal Cord Injury Manifestations and Sequelae Guide (SCI Guide)
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) means damage to the spinal cord that results in complete or partial loss of neurological function (motor, sensory or autonomic) in the parts of the body served by the spinal cord, below the level of the injury.
SCI is a broad term which encompasses a range of labels, some of which include:
Where a person, before the introduction of the policy requiring the use of objective testing (i.e. the TFI or similar), already attained an impairment rating of 15 points for tinnitus (being the maximum points available under GARP), the Department’s approach is that no further testing or investigation is necessary.
