Service |
Comment |
Ambulance – air and road |
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Artificial Limb Services |
Only if required to meet urgent needs, particularly for clients working in essential services |
Blind Services |
For emergency or urgent needs only. Does not include activities of daily living |
Dental |
For emergency and acute care only |
Dietitians |
For emergency and acute care only |
General Practice providers (GPs and nurses) |
Covers urban, rural, urgent care |
Hand therapy |
For emergency and acute care only |
Home and Community Support |
Priority should be on delivering necessary services requiring personal care that supports the necessities of life. Provider discretion should be applied on delivery of non-essential components relating to home help tasks |
Housing Assessments |
Only to support discharge from hospital/spinal units. Assessments for standard and complex modifications can be put on hold |
Housing Modifications |
Grab rails and some minor modifications for people to live in their homes safely when discharged from hospital |
Living my Life Tailored Support |
Clinical judgement required for clients that need essential support eg high risk and vulnerable clients
Excludes other Living My Life components |
Medical Consumables |
For necessity of life, emergency and acute cases, and/ or high risk and vulnerable clients only |
Managed Equipment Services |
Only where equipment for the necessities of life is required. Non-essential items such as recreational equipment should cease during Alert Level 4 |
Non-acute Hyperbaric Oxygen |
For emergency and acute cases only |
Non-acute Rehabilitation |
This will continue as required and deemed appropriate by service providers |
Nursing Services contract |
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Optometry |
For emergency and acute care only |
Outpatient Burns |
Clinical judgement required about the necessity of providing the service |
Palliative Care |
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Pharmaceuticals |
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Physiotherapy |
For emergency and acute care only |
Primary Response in Medical Emergency |
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Radiology |
For emergency and acute care only |
Residential Rehabilitation Support |
Essential support for clients in residential rehabilitation |
Residential Support Services |
We will continue to provide residential care for clients already in these facilities. Only clients who urgently need to be discharged from hospital into a residential facility will be admitted during the lockdown period |
Sexual Abuse Assessment and Treatment |
Services will be delivered by Telehealth generally and in-person only when it is deemed essential by the service |
Social Rehabilitation Needs Assessment |
Only where essential eg to access appropriate equipment to remain safely at home |
Specialised Rehabilitation and Adolescent Rehabilitation |
Will continue as required and deemed appropriate by service providers |
Speech and language therapy |
For emergency and acute care only |
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation |
Will continue as required and deemed appropriate by service providers |
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation |
For necessity of life, emergency and acute cases, and or high risk and vulnerable clients only. |
Taxi/mobility taxi services |
Only when necessary for hospital discharges or hospital follow-ups |
Traumatic Brain Injury – Residential Rehabilitation |
Will continue to provide residential care for acute seriously brain-injured clients |
Wheelchair and Seating Assessments |
Only essential repairs or provision of chairs to allow some level of mobility. Place other assessments on hold |