Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 23

23 Treatment and care of patients

(1) The treatment and care of a patient is the responsibility of authorised doctors and administrators of authorised mental health services.

(2) A person subject to a treatment authority must be regularly assessed to decide if the treatment authority should continue.

(3) An authorised doctor may amend a person’s treatment authority, forensic order or treatment support order by changing the category of the authority or order, its conditions, or the nature or extent of limited community treatment.

(4) An amendment of an authority or order by an authorised doctor must be in accordance with decisions of the Mental Health Court and the Mental Health Review Tribunal.

(5) To the extent practicable, decisions in relation to treatment and care for a patient must be made in consultation with the patient and the patient’s family, carers and other support persons, subject to the patient’s right to privacy.

(6) The performance of electroconvulsive therapy and non-ablative neurosurgical procedures is regulated under this Act.

(7) Psychosurgery is prohibited under this Act.