Medical treatment

Patient consent

• Patient capacity to consent
• Emergency treatment
• Significant treatment
• Routine treatment
• Interpreting an instructional directive
• Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
• Guideline on the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine
• When a person lacks capacity to undertake advance care planning

Medical forms

• Request the Public Advocate to make a medical treatment decision (Section 63 form)
• Notify the Public Advocate that a medical treatment decision maker has refused significant treatment (Section 62 form)
• Medical research procedures
• Request the Public Advocate to make a medical treatment decision re: COVID-19 vaccine (Section 63 form)

Video: An introduction to the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016

Aimed at health practitioners, this presentation provides an overview of advance care planning under the Act, as well as the consent process when a patient does not have decision-making capacity.

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.