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National Health Regulations 1954
Sch 1ANursing home care — prescribed services
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Schedule 1A Nursing home care — prescribed services
(regulation 4A)
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Service | Goods and services included or excluded |
| 1 | The administration of the nursing home | Includes:maintenance of resident documentation |
| 2 | The maintenance of buildings and grounds | |
| 3 | The provision of accommodation | |
| 4 | The provision of goods to assist residents to move themselves | Includes:crutches, quadruped walkers, walking frames, walking sticks, wheelchairs |
| Excludes:motorised and special purpose wheelchairs and any equipment designed, or custom‑made, for a particular resident | ||
| 5 | The provision of goods to assist persons to move residents | Includes:mechanical devices for lifting residents, stretchers, trolleys |
| 6 | The provision of furnishings that the resident chooses not to provide | Includes:bed‑side lockers, chairs with arms, containers for personal laundry, dining, lounge and recreational furnishings, drawscreens (for ward residents), resident wardrobe space, over‑bed tables, towel rails, other wardrobes |
| 7 | The provision of beds and bedding materials appropriate to each resident’s condition | Includes:absorbent or waterproof sheeting, bed linen and blankets, bed rails, hospital‑type beds and mattresses, incontinence sheets, restrainers, ripple mattresses, sheepskins, tri‑pillows, water and air mattresses |
| 8 | The provision of basic cleaning services, goods and facilities | Includes:services, goods and facilities required to maintain cleanliness and tidiness of wards, individual rooms, other areas and the environment of the nursing home |
| 9 | The safe disposal of organic and inorganic waste material | |
| 10 | The provision of general and personal laundry services | Includes:laundering of clothing that can be machine washed at the nursing home or elsewhere |
| Excludes:cleaning of clothing that requires dry cleaning or other special cleaning process |