40Public health physicians

40 Public health physicians

Items 410 to 417 apply to an attendance on a patient by a public health physician only if the attendance relates to 1 or more of the following matters:

(a) management of a patient’s vaccination requirements for immunisation programs;

(b) prevention or management of sexually transmitted disease;

(c) prevention or management of disease caused by scientifically accepted environmental hazards or toxins;

(d) prevention or management of infection arising from an outbreak of an infectious disease;

(e) prevention or management of an exotic disease.

Note An exotic disease is medically accepted as a disease that is of foreign origin.