10Focussed Psychological Strategies health services

10 Focussed Psychological Strategies health services

(1) To comply with this section a person must complete focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development each CPD year. (2) A person referred to in subsection (1) is required to keep written records of completion of focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development for a period of two years from the end of the CPD year to which the focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development relates. (3) For the period referred to in paragraph (a) of the meaning of CPD year in section 4(1), a person who is an allied health professional in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service, as at the date of commencement of this Determination, may count for completion of focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development any of the units referred to within the meaning of that term in section 4(1) completed from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011. (4) Other than where subsection (7) applies, where a person seeks to become an allied health professional in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service during a CPD year and meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 for the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service: (a) that person’s name will be entered on the register, kept by the Chief Executive Medicare, of allied health professionals who are qualified to provide a service of that kind until the end of that CPD year; and (b) that person will have until the end of that CPD year to meet the focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development on a pro‑rata basis, with units being calculated from the first day of the month immediately succeeding the date of registration. (5) If the Minister is satisfied that an allied health professional in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service has not completed their focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development, the Minister: (a) may decide to remove the name of that allied health professional from the register kept by the Chief Executive Medicare; and then (b) notify the Chief Executive Medicare to remove the name from the register. (6) Before the Minister provides notification under subsection (5)(b), the Minister must notify that allied health professional in writing of the decision setting out: (a) the decision; (b) the reasons for the decision; and (c) a statement of the allied health professional’s reconsideration rights under section 11. (7) If the name of a person has been removed from the register as an allied health professional in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service under subsection (9) in order to become an allied health professional in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service (reregistered) that person must apply to be registered and in his or her application must: (a) provide evidence of attaining the necessary amount of units that he or she was required to attain to comply with the focused psychological strategies continuing professional development in the CPD year in which he or she failed to comply; and if reregistered must (b) comply with subsection (1) as if the CPD year in which he or she was reregistered commenced on the date of reregistration. (8) The Minister may grant an exemption in whole or part from focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development, where: (a) a written application from an allied health professional has been received; and (b) the Minister is satisfied that special circumstances prevented the allied health professional from completing focussed psychological strategies continuing professional development in a CPD year. (9) Upon receiving notification under subsection (5)(b), the Chief Executive Medicare shall not remove the name of an allied health professional from the register until notified either: (a) under section 11(10) that if the allied health professional has applied under section 11(1), the Minister has given notice, under section 11(5) that the decision to remove has been affirmed; or (b) under section 11(10) that, if the allied health professional has applied under section 11(6), the Minister has given notice under section 11(9)(c); or (c) where subsections (9)(a) or (b) are not applicable that such period of time as referred to in section 11(2) has expired.