Amy: 
Minister, I know the government has recently said they will not be charging sexual assault victims without Medicare for rape kits. You have also said that you will review policies for other medical costs, including STI tests, pathology tests, MRIs and treatment for injuries. Can you advise what the scope and status of that review is?


Minister for Health and Ambulance Services:
I will ask the acting director-general to update us.


DG, Health and Ambulance Services:
As the minister confirmed, we do not charge for rape kits. With regard to Medicare ineligible patients and those other services, we are currently doing a review with all of the hospital and health services to work with them on when that is being applied. It is not applied across all patients, so we are moving to consistency in policy and consistency in application and that will be achieved before the end of the year.


Amy:
Are there budget considerations attached to that?


DG, Health and Ambulance Services:
Within the $23 billion health allocation there will be a small component of costs associated with that. The recoverable rate on billing ineligibles is not 100 per cent. We do not receive funding for all of these patients even when they are charging an ineligible patient, so it has a small implication for us that is well manageable within the allocation for our hospital and health services.


Amy:
Can I confirm that this will also include things like pathology tests, MRIs and treatment for injuries?


DG, Health and Ambulance Services:
The components that are Queensland Health costs we can absolutely commit to.