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Medical treatment

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Appointing a medical treatment decision maker

Making an advance care directive

For health practitioners seeking guidance

See below

 

Patient consent

Medical forms

Medical treatment decision makers

Identifying the medical treatment decision maker; how and when they act.

Mental health treatment

Medical treatment decision-making when a person is receiving compulsory treatment under the Mental Health Act.

End of life treatment

Health practitioners are not required to administer futile or non-beneficial medical treatment. 

Palliative care treatment

Palliative care, for the relief of a patient's suffering, is treated differently from other forms of medical treatment

Children under 18 years

Unlike adults, people under the age of 18 years (minors) are not presumed to have the decision-making capacity.

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