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Access to medication is essential for health care. There have been challenges to the continuity of health care for people who are asylum seekers recently with changes in case work service providers (now Status Resolution Support Service – SRSS), changes in payment arrangements a

In 2012 the increase in the number of people seeking asylum in Australia required an urgent and coordinated response in the Greater Dandenong region of south eastern Melbourne to ensure local health services could meet the increased demand for health assistance. The collaborative appr

Fact sheet giving details of health assessments for refugees and other humanitarian entrants under Medicare items 701, 703, 705 and 707.

These weblinks and documents are regularly used by those in clinical practice. 1. For GPs and Practice Nurses: Medicare item numbers: Factsheet 2. For GPs and Practice Nurses: Medicare item numbers: Q&A Sheet 3. Interpretering for Doctors Further useful links may be found at <C