National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement 2015
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(1) In this Special Arrangement:
Act means the National Health Act 1953.
adult means a person, who:
is not a child; or
is 18 years of age or older and has late onset growth hormone deficiency.
authorised prescriber
(a) for the initial treatment phase for a child means:
– a specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology; or
– a specialist or consultant physician in general paediatrics in consultation with a nominated specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology.
(b) for the continuing treatment phase for a child means:
– a medical practitioner.
(c) for the recommencement treatment phase for a child, continuing treatment as a reclassified patient phase for a child and recommencement of treatment as a reclassified patient phase for a child means:
– a medical practitioner in consultation with a nominated specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology; or
– a medical practitioner in consultation with a nominated specialist or consultant physician in general paediatrics.
(ca) for the changing drug treatment phase for a child means:
– a specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology; or
– a specialist or consultant physician in general paediatrics in consultation with a nominated specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology.
(cb) for the non‑PBS subsidised to PBS subsidised supply treatment phase for a child in relation to a pharmaceutical benefit that has the drug mecasermin or somatrogon means:
– a specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology; or
– a specialist or consultant physician in general paediatrics in consultation with a nominated specialist or consultant physician in paediatric endocrinology.
(d) for the initial treatment phase for an adult or the continuing treatment phase for an adult, means a specialist or consultant physician in endocrinology.
CDC 2000 means the growth charts in the document entitled 2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: Methods and Development and CDC Extended BMI‑for‑Age Growth Charts, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, dated December 2022, and available on that Department’s website at http://www.cdc.gov/GROWTHcharts