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

Information videos about the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016

• Emergency treatment and consent 1:50 min
• The Public Advocate and medical treatment decisions 3:45 min
• Advance Care Directives 5:28 min
• Health practitioners and medical treatment definitions 2:59 min
• Palliative care 1:40 min
• Notifications to the Public Advocate 1:22 min
• Special medical procedures 1:27 min
• Decision making capacity 4:15 min
• Medical treatment decision makers 4:41 min
• Guardianship – when can physical restraint be authorised?
• An introduction to the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
• Resources to promote Healthy Discussions

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

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.