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A 6-year-old girl with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy attends a Perth outpatient clinic. She needs continuing physiotherapy and speech pathology to preserve function. Her mother is a single parent holding a Health Care Card. Her general practitioner has already used the five Medicare-subsidised allied health services available to her this calendar year, and she stopped attending privately after that because she could not meet the gap fee. She says she was too embarrassed to mention this at the last review. She has never been assessed for disability funding. Which one of the following should you do to keep her therapy going?
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