List of SIRA publications
Use this page to find publications by scheme.
Workers compensation publications
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- A quick guide to workers compensation - information for workers
- Allied health recovery request (AHRR) technical help
- Allied health recovery request (AHRR) instructions for completion
- Allied health recovery request (AHRR) instructions for completion - PDF
- Appendix A insurance premiums orders 2015-2016
- Application for a new specialised insurer licence: requirements
- Application for approval of specialised insurer outsourcing arrangements: requirements
- Application to renew specialised insurer licence: requirements
- Audit improvement plan template
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- Claims technical manual - self and specialised insurers
- Claims technical manual - nominal insurer
- Community connect program guidance material
- Consultation summary: public consultation draft workers compensation regulation 2016 (July 2016)
- Cross border arrangements for workers compensation guide
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- Deemed premium calculation methodology
- Doctors and SIRA - your nominated treating doctor
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix A: excel audit tool
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix B: audit report template
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix C: audit improvement plan
- Draft self-insurer tiering model
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Fees and rates orders 2018
- Fees order 2018 - accredited exercise physiology
- Fees order 2018 - hearing aids
- Fees order 2018 - independent consultants
- Fees order 2018 - injury management consultants
- Fees order 2018 - massage therapy
- Fees order 2018 - medical examinations and reports
- Fees order 2018 - medical practitioner
- Fees order 2018 - orthopaedic surgeon
- Fees order 2018 - physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy
- Fees order 2018 - psychology and counselling
- Fees order 2018 - surgeon
- SIRA rates for general practitioners 2018
Fees and rates orders 2017
- Ambulance fees schedule 2017
- Fees order 2017 - accredited exercise physiology
- Fees order 2017 - hearing aids
- Fees order 2017 - independent consultants
- Fees order 2017 - injury management consultants
- Fees order 2017 - massage therapy
- Fees order 2017 - medical examinations and reports
- Fees order 2017 - medical practitioner
- Fees order 2017 - orthopaedic surgeon
- Fees order 2017 - physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy
- Fees order 2017 - psychology and counselling
- Fees order 2017 - surgeon
- Public hospital fees schedule 2017
- Private hospital fees schedule 2017
- SIRA rates for general practitioners 2017
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) order 2017
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) order 2017 no2
- Workers compensation (private hospital rates) order 2017
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2017
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2017 no2
- Workers compensation rates for general practitioners 2017
Fees and rates orders 2016
- Fees order 2016 - exercise physiology
- Fees order 2016 - exercise physiology no2
- Fees order 2016 - hearing aids
- Fees order 2016 - independent consultant
- Fees order 2016 - injury management consultant
- Fees order 2016 - massage therapy
- Fees order 2016 - massage therapy no2
- Fees order 2016 - medical examinations and reports
- Fees order 2016 - medical practitioner
- Fees order 2016 - orthopaedic surgeon
- Fees order 2016 - physiotherapy chiropractic osteopathy
- Fees order 2016 - physiotherapy chiropractic osteopathy addendum
- Fees order 2016 - physiotherapy chiropractic osteopathy no2
- Fees order 2016 - surgeon
- SIRA rates for general practitioners 2016
- SIRA workers compensation rates for general practitioners 2016
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) 2016
- Workers compensation (private hospital rates) 2016
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) 2016
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- Group self-insurer standard licence conditions
- Guideline for approval of treating allied health practitioners
- Guideline for approval of treating allied health practitioners 2016 no2
- Guidelines for claiming compensation benefits
- Guidelines for claiming workers compensation
- Guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment - summary of changes from 3rd to 4th edition
- Guidelines for work capacity decision internal reviews by insurers and merit reviews by the Authority
- Guidelines for workplace return to work programs (2010 edition)
- Guidelines for workplace return to work programs (May 2017)
- Guidelines on injury management consultants
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- Identifying personal and environmental risk factors with FACTORWEB
- If you get injured at work poster
- Independent medical examinations and reports: guidelines (March 2012)
- Independent medical examinations fact sheet
- Information for medical practitioners completing the SIRA certificate of capacity/certificate of fitness
- Information to engage a return to work coordinator
- Information to engage a shared return to work coordinator
- Injured at work guide for workers
- Injury management consultants fact sheet
- Insurer claims management audit manual
- Insurer claims management audit report template
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- JobCover placement program checklist
- JobCover placement program - information for workers and employers
- JobCover placement program guidance material
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- Licensed insurer business plan guidelines 2017
- Licensing framework for specialised insurers
- List of psychology and counselling independent consultants
- List of self insurers
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Merit review noteable decisions 2018
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 001/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 002/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 003/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 004/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 005/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 006/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 007/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 008/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 009/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 010/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 011/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 012/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 013/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 014/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 015/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 016/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 017/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 018/18
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 019/18
Merit review noteable decisions 2015
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 001/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 002/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 003/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 004/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 005/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 007/15
- Findings and recommendations on merit review 008/15
- Merit review portal document categorisation guide
- Merit review portal: insurer Q&As
- Merit review portal: worker Q&As
- Merit review user guide
- Merit review user guide - background paper
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- Nominated treating doctor fact sheet
- NSW supplement to the guide: nationally consistent approval framework for workplace rehabilitation providers
- NSW workers compensation guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment
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- Permanent impairment guidelines tale 4.2 interpretation and application
- Physical allied health recovery request (AHRR) example
- Preparing for my specialist appointment
- Psychological allied health recovery request (AHRR) example
- Psychologists and counsellors - appointed independent consultants
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- Recover at work planning tool
- Recover at work tools for employers
- Recovery at work is just good business
- Regulation of legal costs for work capacity decision reviews - discussion paper, October 2015
- Regulation of pre-injury average weekly earnings (PIAWE) - discussion paper
- Regulatory impact statement - draft workers compensation regulation 2016
- Requesting consent to release and exchange personal information
- Requirements for providing notification by specialised insurers
- Return to work assist program for micro employers guidance material
- Return to work program checklist - category 1 employers
- Return to work programs: information for employers
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- Section 53 Vocational re-education programs: requirements for insurers
- Security deposits for self and specialised insurers
- Self-insurer information requirements
- Self-insurer licensing policy
- Self-insurer tiering model
- Single self-insurer standard licence conditions
- Self-insurer s89 business information requirements
- SIRA dispute resolution services guide to workers compensation merit reviews
- SIRA report on June 2016 Nominal Insurer valuation
- Specialised insurer annual information: requirements
- Specialised insurer licence
- Specialised insurers worker health and safety loss management program: assessment criteria
- Standard return to work program
- Standard return to work program for category 2 employers
- Strategy for small business
- Submissions summary: regulation of legal costs for work capacity decision reviews
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- There's been a work-related incident - employers
- There's been a work-related incident - workers
- Training program guidance material
- Transition to work program guidance material
- Treatment principles for the provision of psychological and counselling services
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- Wages definition manual January 2014
- WC exercise physiologist requirements
- What is an independent medical examination?
- What to expect from your workplace rehabilitation provider
- When a worker is injured: A workers compensation guide for employers
- Work capacity guidelines
- Work capacity guidelines October 2013
- Work trial checklist
- Work trial guidance material
- Work trial program: Information for potential host employers
- Work trial program: Information for workers
- WorkCover medical assessments guidelines 2006
- Workers compensation benefits guide 1 April 2018
- Workers compensation guide for allied health practitioners
- Workers compensation guide for employers
- Workers compensation guide for medical practitioners
- Workers compensation (indexation of amounts) amendment order (no 2) 2017
- Workers compensation market practice and premium guidelines 2017
- Workers compensation regulation 2016 draft
- Workers compensation regulation 2016 fact sheet
- Workers compensation regulation 2016 list of amendments
- Workers compensation system performance report 2014-2015
Motor accidents (CTP) publications
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- Abbreviated Westmead post traumatic amnesia scale
- About Dispute Resolution Services
- After a car crash: What to expect on the road to recovery
- Assessment conference venue policy
- Assessment claims fact sheet
- Assessment of disputes in connection with a claim fact sheet
- Assessment of minor dental injuries fact sheet
- Assessment of periorbital injury involving minor scarring or disfigurement fact sheet
- Assessor guidance material - costs regulation 2015
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- Brain injury assessment fact sheet
- Brain injuries assessments fact sheet (for assessors)
- Brain injuries assessments fact sheet (for injured person)
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Claims assessment guidelines
- Claims assessment guidelines
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 1 introduction
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 2 general legal issues
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 3 CARS assessors
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 4 before assessment
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 5 assessment
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 6 exemption
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 7 special assessment
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 8 further assessments
- Claims assessment guidelines: chapter 9 decisions
- Claims assessor code of conduct
- Claims assessor fee schedule 2016
- Claims assessor terms of engagement
- Claims handling guidelines
- Classifying whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) severity
- Clinical framework for the delivery of health services
- Common dispute types
- CTP green slips and how to claim
- CTP JobCover placement program information for CTP claimants and employers
- CTP quick guide
- CTP scheme history
CTP reform public submissions 2013
- CTP reform submission: Actuaries Institute NSW
- CTP reform submission: Australian Association of Social Workers
- CTP reform submission: Greens NSW
- CTP reform submission: IAG NRMA Insurance
- CTP reform submission: Insurance Council of Australia
- CTP reform submission: NSW Bar Association, Law of Society of NSW and Australian Lawyers Alliance (joint submission)
- CTP reform submission: KPMG
- CTP reform submission: NSW Motorcycle Alliance
- CTP reform submission: NSW Taxi Council
- CTP reform submission: QBE
- CTP reform submission: Slater and Gordon
- CTP reform submission: Transport for NSW
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- Damages and cost calculator (April 2015)
- Decision production guidelines for assessors
- Deterring fraudulent and exaggerated claims in the NSW CTP insurance scheme
E
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- Failure to attend medical appointments and late cancellations fact sheet
- FAQ for injured persons
- Flowchart 1: Pre-hospital ambulance service
- Flowchart 2: Emergency department (GCS 14-15/15)
- Flowchart 3: Emergency department (GCS 9-13/15)
- Flowchart 4: Community general practitioner no previous ED assessment
- Flowchart 5: Community general practitioner post ED discharge
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- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - March 2018
- Glossary of WPI terms and definitions of clinical findings
- GP guide return to work study considerations
- Guidance for returning to driving
- Guide for people injured in a motor vehicle accident
- Guide for people who have lost a relative in a motor vehicle accident
- Guidelines for the management of acute whiplash-associated disorders
- Guidelines for the management of acute whiplash-associated disorders (technical report)
- Guidelines for mild traumatic brain injury
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- Impact of event scale
- Information for injured people about claims assessments with an interpreter
- Information for injured people about medical assessments with an interpreter
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- List of claims assessors 2018
- List of dispute types and subtypes
- List of medical assessors (alphabetical)
- List of medical assessors (practice area)
- List of medical review panel assessors
- List of merit reviewers 2018
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Medical assessor guidance notes
- Medical assessor guidance note 1
- Medical assessor guidance note 2
- Medical assessor guidance note 3
- Medical assessor guidance note 4
- Medical assessor guidance note 5
- Medical assessor guidance note 6
- Medical assessor guidance note 7
- Medical assessor guidance note 8
- Medical assessor guidance note 10
- Medical assessor guidance note 11
- Medical assessor guidance note 12
- Medical assessor guidance note 13
- Medical assessor guidance note 14
- Medical assessor guidance note 15
- Medical assessor guidance note 16
- Medical assessor guidance note 17
- Medical assessor guidance note 18
- Medical assessor guidance note 19
- Medical assessor guidance note 20
- Medical assessor guidance note 21
- Medical assessor guidance note 22
- Medical assessor guidance note 23
- Medical assessor guidance note 24
- Medical assessor guidance note 25
- Mild traumatic brain injury checklist for GPs
- Mild traumatic brain injury checklist for emergency departments when writing discharge letter
- Minor skin injuries assessments fact sheet
- Minor injury, statutory benefits and lifetime care and support
- Modified postural stability assessment
- Motor accidents compensation regulation 2015: commencement timing table
- Motor accidents compensation regulation 2015: detailed changes and commencement timing table
- Motor accidents guide for allied health practitioners
- Motor accident guidelines
- Motor accidents guidelines: claims handling and medical (treatment, rehabilitation and care)
- Motor accidents medical assessment fee schedule
- Motor accidents medical assessment guidelines
- Motor accidents medical assessor code of conduct
- Motor accidents medical assessor terms of appointment
- Motor accidents medical review panel assessors terms of appointment
- Motor accidents permanent impairment guidelines
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- Neck disability index
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for psychologists and other health practitioners
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for solicitors, CTP insurers and LTCS staff
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for the injured person, relatives and significant others
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for the party arranging the assessment
- Neuropsychological assessment of children and adults with mild traumatic brain injury
- New whiplash guidelines for physiotherapists
- Nguyen case note and commentary
- Nguyen commentary number 2 judgement
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- Permanent impairment assessment examination checklist
- Permanent impairment assessment of minor periorbital injuries by ophthalmologists
- Personal injury benefits claims diagram
- Premium instalments for country taxis
- Premium instalments for metro taxis
- Preparation for review panel (motor accidents)
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Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet translations
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Arabic
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Croatian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Greek
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Hindi
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Italian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Korean
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Macedonian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Nepali
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Serbian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet simplified Chinese
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Spanish
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Turkish
- Report of the independent review of insurer profit
- Review panel process (for motor accidents)
- Rivermead post concussion symptoms questionnaire
- Road map for personal injury benefits
- Role of review panel (motor accidents)
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- Scarring case study - right lower limb
- Scarring case study - right upper limb and left lower limb
- SIRA guide CTP vocational support
- SIRA medical assessors fee schedule for medical and review panel assessments 2017
- Social research CTP reform full report
- Social research CTP reform summary report
- Sports concussion assessment tool
- Summary guide of NSW CTP insurers obligations
- Summary guidelines or mild traumatic brain injury for GPs
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- The Canadian C-spine rule
- The role of lawyers in the new CTP scheme fact sheet
- Treatment rehabilitation and attendant care (TRAC) guidelines
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- What is the medical assessment service
- What to expect at an assessment conference fact sheet
- What to expect at a medical appointment
- When someone dies in a motor vehicle accident: information for families
- Whiplash-associated disorders flowchart
- Whiplash: a fact sheet about your recovery in the first 12 weeks
- Whiplash: a summary for health professionals
- Whiplash assessment tools
- Whiplash: facts at your fingertips
- Whiplash guidelines educational slide set (presentation)
- Whiplash in primary care (medical observer)
- Whiplash neck exercises and videos
Whiplash recovery translations
- Whiplash recovery Arabic
- Whiplash recovery Chinese
- Whiplash recovery Croatian
- Whiplash recovery Greek
- Whiplash recovery Hindi
- Whiplash recovery Italian
- Whiplash recovery Korean
- Whiplash recovery Macedonian
- Whiplash recovery Nepali
- Whiplash recovery Serbian
- Whiplash recovery Spanish
- Whiplash recovery Turkish
- Whiplash recovery Vietnamese