A crew member providing non-emergency patient transport services under the authority of an NEPT licence must ensure that, when providing those services to a patient –

(a) the patient is not left unattended in the NEPT vehicle, by the crew members providing the non-emergency patient transport services, at any stage while those services are being provided unless –

(i) a crew member has assessed, and is within his or her scope of practice in assessing, the patient and determined that the patient is clinically stable and able to be safely left unattended; and

(ii) the patient, or another person who may lawfully consent on behalf of the patient, has consented to being left unattended by the crew members; and

(b) the patient –

(i) is under clinical observation by a crew member acting within his or her scope of practice for the duration of the transport; and

(ii) any significant changes noted as part of that clinical observation are recorded; and

(c) the patient is not transported with another patient, if either patient –

(i) has, or is suspected of having, an infectious communicable disease; or

(ii) is, or is suspected of being, immune-suppressed; or

(iii) is being provided with palliative care; or

(iv) has requested, or reasonably requires, privacy due to their medical condition or for any other reason; or

(v) is behaving, or is likely to behave, in a way that may distress or endanger another person; or

(vi) is being transported with a therapeutic, or monitoring, device that would impede access to any patient being transported at the same time; and

(d) the patient is only transported with a carer escort if the carer escort is able to be legally transported in the vehicle; and

(e) if the patient is required in his or her patient assessment record to be escorted by a clinical escort, the patient is escorted by a clinical escort.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 4 penalty units.