EmailCirculars 2008 Index
Hospital Circulars for the year 2008 are listed here in the date order they were published. The relevant Publication Number links to the Circular.
Publication Number 36 / 2008 - 24 December 2008
Date Issued: 24 December 2008
Subject: Changes to the Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 35 / 2008 - 19 December 2008
Date Issued: 19 December 2008
Subject: Pharmaceutical outpatient charges, PBS co-payments and Safety Net thresholds
Publication Number 34 / 2008 - 19 November 2008
Date Issued: 17 December 2008
Subject: Long Service Leave - update to the accounting treatment for Long Service Leave (LSL) and associated funding and to define salaries and wages
Publication Number 33 / 2008 - 28 November 2008
Date Issued: 28 November 2008
Subject: Changes to the Highly Specialised Drugs Program, effective 1 December 2008
Publication Number 32 / 2008 - 24 November 2008
Date Issued: 24 November 2008
Subject: Traceability of Transfused Blood and Blood Products
Publication Number 31 / 2008 - 24 October 2008
Date Issued: 24 October 2008
Subject: Post Acute Care (PAC) for TAC Clients
Publication Number 30 / 2008 - 31 October 2008
Date Issued: 31 October 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 29 / 2008 - 15 October 2008
Date Issued: 15 October 2008
Subject: Medicare ineligible asylum seekers
Publication Number 28 / 2008 - 30 October 2008
Date Issued: 30 October 2008
Subject: Commonwealth Government 2008-09 Aged Care Approvals Round – Public Sector Endorsement Process
Publication Number 27 / 2008 - 10 October 2008
Date Issued: 10 October 2008
Subject: Changes to the Rehabilitation Appliances
Program National Schedule of Equipment for eligible veterans
Publication Number 26 / 2008 - 25 September 2008
Date Issued: 25 September 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 25 / 2008 - 18 September 2008
Date Issued: 18 September 2008
Subject: Changes to billing requirements for surgical
procedures in public hospitals for Transport Accident Commission (TAC)
and WorkSafe patients
Publication Number 24 / 2008 - 24 September 2008
Date Issued: 20 September 2008
Subject: Public Hospital Charges - Changes
Publication Number 23 / 2008 - 26 November 2008
Date Issued: 26 November 2008
Subject:Update of guidelines and responsibilities for Hospital Early Warning System’s (HEWS) and hospital bypass for metropolitan health services
Publication Number 22 / 2008 - 26 August 2008
Date Issued: 26 August 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 21 / 2008 - 25 July 2008
Date Issued: 25 July 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 20 / 2008 - 10 July 2008
Date Issued: 10 July 2008
Subject: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Funding and
Reporting changes
Publication Number 19 / 2008 - 24 June 2008
Date Issued: 24 June 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 18 / 2008 - 12 June 2008
Date Issued: 12 June 2008
Subject: Public Hospital fees – Changes
- Private Admitted Patients - overnight stays, same day patients and hospital outreach service patients
- Compensable Admitted Patients (excluding WorkCover and TAC recipients)
Publication Number 17 / 2008 - 17 June 2008
Date Issued: 17 June 2008
Subject: Rural public health care agencies alliances policy – minor updates
Publication Number 16 / 2008 - 1 June 2008
Date Issued: 18 June 2008
Subject: Autologous Private Cord Blood Collection in Public Hospitals
Publication Number 15 / 2008 - 1 June 2008
Date Issued: 1 June 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 14 / 2008 - 14 May 2008
Date Issued: 14 May 2008
Subject: Rural public health care agencies alliances policy – minor updates
Publication Number 13 / 2008 - 7 April 2008
Date Issued: 7 May 2008
Subject: To update the accounting treatment for Long Service Leave and associated funding
Publication Number 12 / 2008 - 24 April 2008
Date Issued: 24 April 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 10 / 2008 - 7 April 2008
Date Issued: 25 March 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 09 / 2008 - 20 March 2008
Date Issued: 20 March 2008
Subject: Public Hospital Charges - Changes: Nursing
Home Type Patients (NHTP)
Publication Number 08 / 2008 - 3 March 2008
Date Issued: 3 March 2008
Subject: Criteria for the use of Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg)
Publication Number 07 / 2008 - 1 March 2008
Date Issued: 1 March 2008
Subject: Highly Specialised Drugs Program
Publication Number 06 / 2008 - 9 April 2008
Date Issued: 9 April 2008
Subject: Rural Public Health Care Agencies Alliances
Policy
Publication Number 05 / 2008 - 24 January 2008
Date Issued: 23 January 2008
Subject: To update the accounting treatment for Long
Service Leave and associated funding
Publication Number 04 / 2008 - 17 January 2008
Date issued: 17 January 2008
Subject: Impact of new TAC arrangements with the Department for the provision of public hospital services to TAC clients.
Publication Number 03 / 2008 - 15 January 2008
Date issued: 15 January 2008
Subject: Emergency ambulance service price increase
Publication Number 02 / 2008 - 19 March 2008
Date issued: 19 March 2008
Subject: Non emergency patient transport to and from appointments
at non admitted clinics at health services receiving the VACS Specified
Grant – Ambulance Outpatient Clinic Charges
Publication Number 01 / 2008 - 3 January 2008
Date issued: 3 January 2008
Subject: That all Intracavitary Transducers need to be reprocessed
according to Australian Standards 4187:2003
