Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) A provider must ensure that any vehicle used to transport a patient is staffed by persons with skills, competencies and knowledge appropriate for ensuring that the patient's clinical needs can be met for the duration of the transport.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
Reg. 19(2) amended by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(1).
(2) Despite subregulation (1), a patient may be transported in a vehicle if that course of action is recommended by any of the following persons working in the communications centre of Ambulance Service—Victoria as being necessary to avoid the possibility of the patient dying or suffering an adverse patient safety event were the patient required to wait for a different form of transport or for assessment—
(a) a registered medical practitioner;
(b) a registered nurse;
Reg. 19(2)(c) amended by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(2).
(c) a registered paramedic.
(3) A provider must not employ a person as a clinical instructor unless the person has obtained at a minimum a certificate level IV Training and Assessment qualification or a qualification that, in the opinion of the Secretary, is equivalent to the first-mentioned qualification and—
(a) is a registered medical practitioner; or
(b) was employed by a non-emergency patient transport service as a clinical instructor immediately before 20 April 2016; or
Reg. 19(3)(c) amended by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(3).
(c) is a registered paramedic employed by an ambulance service who has worked for a period of not less than 18 months full time (or part time for not less than the equivalent of that period); or
(d) is employed by a non-emergency patient transport service and has at least 18 months full time (or part time for not less than the equivalent of that period) experience in transporting patients of all acuity levels and that person holds a degree or a diploma approved by the Secretary.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(4) A provider must ensure that an Ambulance Transport Attendant employed by the provider to crew a vehicle for the purposes of patient transport—
(a) has at least 400 hours of supervised on road clinical practice experience over a period not exceeding 2 years; or
(b) is supervised by a person described in paragraph (a).
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
Reg. 19(5) inserted by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(4).
(5) A provider must ensure that any patient transport officer who crews a vehicle that is providing a non-emergency patient transport service operated by the provider—
(a) has at least 100 hours of on road clinical practice experience in active patient care; or
(b) is supervised by an ambulance transport attendant or a person to whom subregulation (4)(a) applies.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
Reg. 19(6) inserted by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(4).
(6) A provider must ensure that any staff member of the provider who drives a vehicle that is providing a non-emergency patient transport service operated by the provider has a full driver licence.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
Reg. 19(7) inserted by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 10(4).
(7) In this regulation—
"clinical practice" experience in active patient care includes no more than 50% of clinical placement hours that involve active patient management and do not include observational shifts.
Reg. 20 amended by S.R. No. 148/2021 reg. 11(1)(2) (ILA s. 39B(2)).