Enhanced Primary Care Program (EPC)
Intellectual Disability Health Assessment
The Intellectual Disability Health Assessment (MBS Items 718 and 719) was released on 1 July 2007. These items are available for GPs to provide a preventive health check for people with an intellectual disability and to identify any medical intervention and preventive health care required.
- Fact Sheet
- Questions and Answers
- Consumer/Carer Brochure
- Intellectual Disability Health Assessment Proforma (PDF 275 KB)
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Media releases
- Expansion of Medicare-eligible MRI services
- WA hospitals boosted by record number of new nurses and more to come
- Audit of health workforce shortage in rural and regional Australia
Program/Initiatives
- General Practice After Hours Program - Reporting Templates and Associated Guide
- National Perinatal Depression Initiative
- Access to Allied Psychological Services
- National Eating Disorders Collaboration
- National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project
Publications
- Panic disorder and agoraphobia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers
- Guidelines for the early clinical and public health management of meningococcal disease in Australia - Revised Edition 2007
- Current issue - December 2008 - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
- The National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008
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