The range of conditions varies from one provider to another. Some of the conditions include:
-Alzheimer’s disease – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Angioplasty
-Aorta graft surgery – for disease
-Aplastic Anaemia
-Bacterial Meningitis
-Benign brain tumour – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Benign spinal cord tumour
-Blindness – permanent and irreversible
-Cancer – excluding less advanced cases
-Carcinoma in-situ of the cervix uterius
-Cardiomyopathy
-Coma – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Coronary artery by-pass grafts – with surgery to divide the breastbone
-Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
-Crohn’s disease – treated with surgical intestinal resection
-Deafness – permanent and irreversible
-Degenerative organic brain disease
-Dementia – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Emphysema
-Encephalitis – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Heart attack – of specified severity
-Heart valve replacement or repair – with surgery to divide the breastbone
-HIV infection – caught from a blood transfusion, a physical assault or at work in an eligible occupation
-Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
-Kidney failure – requiring dialysis
-Liver failure
-Loss of independent existence
-Loss of speech – permanent and irreversible
-Major organ transplant
-Mastectomy benefit for DCIS
-Motor neurone disease – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Multiple Sclerosis – with persisting symptoms
-Open heart surgery
-Paralysis of limbs – total and irreversible
-Parkinson’s disease – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Primary Pulmonary Hypertension – of specified severity
-Progressive supranuclear palsy
-Low Grade Prostatectomy
-Pulmonary Artery Surgery
-Respiratory failure
-Rheumatoid arthritis
-Severe crohn’s disease – with persisting symptoms
-Severe lung disease
-Stroke – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
-Terminal illness
-Third degree burns – covering % of the body’s surface area
-Traumatic head injury – resulting in permanent symptoms
-Ulcerative colitis