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Annual Report 2001—2002 >> Commission activity
Commission activity
In 2001–02, the Repatriation Commission considered 120 submissions
and held 23 formal meetings.
Matters before the Commission for decision included:
- Compensation payments—Japanese internment
- Restoration of war widows’ pensions—pre 1984
- Private trusts and companies—integrity of means testing
- Pensions Loan Scheme—extension of eligibility
- ANAO performance Audit—Review of Veterans’ Compensation
Decisions
- Expansion of the Long Tan Bursary Scheme
- Veterans’ Children Education Scheme—benefits for students
living overseas
- Vietnam veterans’ children—extension of assistance for
certain conditions
- VVCS - Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service—extension of services to
Vietnam veterans’ children over 35 years of age
- Crisis Assistance Program—proposed pilot program
- Veterans’ Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme—extension of
Memorandum of Understanding
- Health and Medical Research Grants Program
- Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Health
- Cooperative Research Centre in physical activity and health
- Fees for rural practitioners—negotiations with the Australian
Medical Association
- Community nursing—payment management for exceptional cases
- Dental fees schedule
- Dental prosthetics fees schedule
- Fees for specialists
- Remuneration for preparation of cytotoxic drugs
- Social workers in private practice—submission from the Australian
Association of Social Workers for a fee increase
- Fees for new spectacle frames
- Day procedure centres—pricing strategy
- Tasmanian veteran partnering contracts with private hospitals—review
of prices
- Repatriation transport—annual adjustment to rates of travelling
allowance
- Repatriation Transport Scheme—Booked Car with Driver service
- Concord Repatriation General Hospital—special veteran services
- Veterans’ Home Care—implementation issues
- Prescriber intervention and feedback program
- Alternative health therapies—veteran access
- Reduction of prior approval on psychology services and dietary services
- Anaesthetic services—payment arrangements
- Podiatry services—fees
- Korean health study pilot
- Special Air Service—members’ health concerns
In some cases submissions led to changes in administrative policy while
in others they confirmed or clarified current policy guidelines.
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