We mirror NIHB with our own ministerial policy on medical travel. The policy has four or five criteria, but none of them involves cultural safety or dislocation compassion or whatever. They speak strictly to areas such as mobility; interpretation; about to give birth; and needing help to understand an aftercare plan and so on.
Our territorial policy has an appeal process. I'm not sure if the federal government has an appeal process for its administrative side of the program, but an appeal process is a good idea. If there isn't one in place, it would be useful to have it so that people who are denied an escort can have someone else take a look at their file and see if it would be useful.
That's my view on it. I'll ask John Main what he thinks.