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Patients from the age of 75 years; or Indigenous patients from the age of 55 years who are still living at home are eligible for a Health Assessment on a annually bases. This service can only be provided with the patients consent and is not provided to patients in nursing homes or hostels.

Benefit to Patients

  1. Improved clinical health outcomes
    • Vaccination rates
    • Fall risk minimisation
    • Less medication error
    • Improved nutrition
    • Detection of previously undiagnosed medical/psychiatric conditions.
    • Living conditions
  2. Social contact
  3. Improved access to community care services
  4. Potentially no cost to patients (if bulk billed)
  5. Your patient will be provided with their printed health assessment which will serve as a record which can be used by other health care providers.
  6. Increased confidence in their doctor
  7. Increased awareness of their own medical problems.


General requirements
 A Health Assessment should generally only be undertaken by the medical practitioner, or a practitioner working in the medical practice who has provided the majority of services to the patient over the past 12 months. Information collection component of the assessment can be conducted by a nurse or another assistant in accordance with accepted medical practice, acting under the supervision of the GP.

The other components of the assessment must include a personal attendance by the GP. In a situation where a patient’s usual medical practitioner does not undertake the health assessment, a copy of the Health Assessment report should be forwarded to the medical practitioner subject to the patient’s agreement.

The GP should offer the patient a copy of the Health Assessment or the recommendations.

MBS Item numbers
700
Health assessment in the consulting room.
702
Health assessment not at a consulting room, hospital or residential aged care facility.
704
Health assessment at a consulting room for a patient who is at least 55 years old and of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander descent.
706
 Health assessment not in a consulting room, hospital or residential aged care facility, for a patient who is at least 55 years old and of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander descent.