HELP Debtor Guidelines (Health Practitioners) 2023 (Cth)

HELP Debtor Guidelines (Health Practitioners) 2023

I, Jason Clare, Minister for Education, make the following guidelines.

Dated 21 August 2023

Jason Clare Minister for Education

Contents Part 1 – Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2 – Meaning of location-preferred HELP debtor (health practitioner) 5 Registration or accreditation of health practitioner 6 Work carried out by the health practitioner 7 Rural, remote or very remote areas 8 Minimum hours of work for a health practitioner 9 Eligible courses of study Part 3 – Reducing accumulated HELP debts 10 Requirements for the reduction of accumulated HELP debts

Part 1 – Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the HELP Debtor Guidelines (Health Practitioners) 2023.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 238-10 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) ABS Remoteness Structure; (b) accumulated HELP debt; (c) course of study; (d) course of study in medicine; (e) location-preferred HELP debtor (health practitioner); and (f) postgraduate course of study. In this instrument: Act means the Higher Education Support Act 2003. general practice means the totality of a medical practice as an organisation including any medical practitioners, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals that may work at the practice doing the following: (a) managing undifferentiated acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan in an unreferred patient population; (b) providing continuing care for individuals with chronic conditions; and (c) undertaking preventive health activities such as screening, immunisation, and health education. Health Department is the Department of State of the Commonwealth that is administered by the Minister administering the Health Insurance Act 1973. medical practitioner has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973. Note: Section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 provides that a medical practitioner means a person who is registered under the National Law (as defined in section 3 of that Act) in the medical profession. Modified Monash Model (MMM) means the geographical classification system managed by the Health Department that categorises metropolitan, regional, rural and remote areas by reference to the ABS Remoteness Structure. nurse practitioner has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973. Note: Section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 provides that a nurse practitioner means a person who is registered under the National Law (as defined in section 3 of that Act) in the nursing profession as a nurse practitioner.