Team Care Arrangements (723 or 92025)
When coordinating the development of Team Care Arrangements (TCAs), the General Practitioner must:
- consult with at least two collaborating providers, each of whom will provide a different kind of treatment or service to the patient, and one of whom may be another medical practitioner, when making arrangements for the multidisciplinary care of the patient
- prepare a document that describes:
- treatment and service goals for the patient
- treatment and services that collaborating providers will provide to the patient
- actions to be taken by the patient
- arrangements to review (i), (ii) and (iii) by a date specified in the document
- explain the steps involved in the development of the arrangements to the patient and the patient’s carer (if any, and if the practitioner considers it appropriate and the patient agrees)
- discuss with the patient the collaborating providers who will contribute to the development of the TCAs and provide treatment and services to the patient under those arrangements
- record the patient’s agreement to the development of TCAs
- give copies of the relevant parts of the document to the collaborating providers
- offer a copy of the document to the patient and the patient’s carer (if any, and if the practitioner considers it appropriate and the patient agrees)
- add a copy of the document to the patient’s medical records