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Video: Medical Treatment Planning and Decision Making Act 2016 - an introduction

This presentation for health practitioners explains:

  • advance care planning under the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
  • the medical consent process under the new Act for a patient who does not have decision-making capacity to make the medical treatment decision.
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