Hospital Circulars

Hospital Circulars 1996 Index

Hospital Circulars for the year 1996 are listed here in the date order they were published. The relevant Publication Number links to the Circular.

Publication Number: 25/1996 Date: 18 December 1996

Subject/s: Fees for Pharmaceutical Benefit Safety Net Scheme (PBS) (PDF file 216KB)

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Publication Number: 24/1996 Date: 12 November 1996

Subject/s: Prostate cancer Screening (PDF file 169KB)

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Publication Number: 23/1996 Date: 3 December 1996

Subject/s: Public Hospital fees: 1. Day Only Arrangements 2. Patient Classification Schedule - changes 3. Prostheses List - correction (PDF file 1.63MB)

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Publication Number: 22/1996 Date: 28 November 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - Indinavir & Ritonavir (PDF file 681KB)

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Publication Number: 21/1996 Date: 20 November 1996

Subject/s: Changes in Fees for WorkCover Authority Patients (PDF file 362KB)

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Publication Number: 20/1996 Date: 11 November 1996

Subject/s: Exit Package Program 1996/97 (PDF file 683KB)

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Publication Number: 19/1996 Date: 24 October 1996

Subject/s:

1. Same Day Procedures Manual - August 1996
2. Nursing Home Type Patients (NHTPs) in Recognised Hospitals - changes in fees
3. Public Hospital Prosthesis Fees
4. Neo-natal facilities for the treatment of newly born children - approval under the Health Insurance Act 1973
5. Timely payment of benefits
6. 'Ineligible' patients from whom no payment may be forthcoming
7. Asylum Seekers - conditions for financial assistance
8. Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) books - distribution

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Publication Number: 18/1996 Date: 27 September 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - Saquinavir (PDF file 301KB)

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Publication Number: 17/1996 Date: 29 August 1996

Subject/s: Vancomycin Resistent Enterococci (VRE) (PDF file 754KB)

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Publication Number: 16/1996 Date: 23 July 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - Saquinavir (PDF file 574KB)

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Publication Number: 15/1996 Date: 16 July 1996

Subject/s: AIMS Statistical Reporting 1996/97 (PDF file 1.63MB)

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Publication Number: 14/1996 Date: 4 July 1996

Subject/s:

1. Public Hospital Fees & Dental Fees
2. Contracts between Public Hospital and Health Insurance Organisations

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Publication Number: 13/1996 Date: 27 June 1996

Subject/s: Ambulance Bypass of Public Hospital Emergency Departments and Ambulance Transport to Private Hospital Emergency Departments (PDF file 307KB)

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Publication Number: 12/1996 Date: 24 June 1996

Subject/s: Definition and Reporting Changes from 1 July 1996: VIMD Coding (PDF file 229KB)

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Publication Number: 11/1996 Date: 17 June 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - New Drugs (PDF file 781KB)

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Publication Number: 10/1996 Date: 26 March 1996

Subject/s: 1. Public Hospital Prostheses fees 2. Day Only Arrangements - Amendments (PDF file 339KB)

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Publication Number: 9/1996 Date: 1 May 1996

Subject/s: Network Hospital Obligations Regarding Separation Packages (PDF file 893KB)

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Publication Number: 8/1996 Date: 17 April 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - Clarithromycin (PDF file 266KB)

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Publication Number: 7/1996 Date: 14 March 1996

Subject/s: Superannuation Funding 1995/96 (PDF file 213KB)

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Publication Number: 6/1996 Date: 7 March 1996

Subject/s:

1. Workcover Patients
2. Nursing Home Type Patients (NHTPs) in Recognised Hospitals (PDF file 370KB)

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Publication Number: 5/1996 Date: 29 Feb 1996

Subject/s: Highly Specialised Drugs Program - amendments to drugs (PDF file 1.04MB)

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Publication Number: 4/1996 Date: 22 Feb 1996

Subject/s:

1. Public Hospital Inpatient Election Form - amendment
2. Public Hospital Fees - Patient Classification Schedule, and Day Only Arrangements - amendments
3. Health Insurance Fund Data

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Publication Number: 3/1996 Date: 9 Feb 1996

Subject/s: Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) - An Emerging Pathogen (PDF file 151KB)

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Publication Number: 2/1996 Date: 30 Jan 1996

Subject/s: Fees for Pharmaceutical Benefits Safety Net Scheme (PBS) (PDF file 245KB)

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Publication Number: 1/1996 Date: 8 Jan 1996

Subject/s: Post Exposure Prophylaxis for Health Care Workers Exposed to HIV (PDF file 199KB)