Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies if urgent non-psychiatric treatment is provided to a patient who is
—
(a) an
involuntary patient who is under an inpatient treatment order authorising the
patient’s detention at an authorised hospital; or
(b) an
accused required under the CLMI Act section 19 to be detained at an authorised
hospital; or
(c) a
supervised person required under the CLMI Act to be detained at an authorised
hospital.
(2) In this section
—
urgent non-psychiatric treatment means urgent
treatment as defined in the GAA Act section 110ZH.
(3) The person in
charge of the authorised hospital must, as soon as practicable, report the
provision of the urgent non-psychiatric treatment to —
(a) the
Chief Psychiatrist; and
(b) if
the patient is a supervised person — the Mental Impairment Review
Tribunal.
(4) The report must be
in the approved form and must include these things about the urgent
non-psychiatric treatment —
(a) the
name of the patient provided with the treatment;
(b) the
name and qualifications of the practitioner who provided the treatment;
(c) the
names of any other people involved in providing the treatment;
(d) the
date, time and place the treatment was provided;
(e)
particulars of the circumstances in which the treatment was provided;
(f)
particulars of the treatment provided.
(5) The provision of
urgent non-psychiatric treatment is an event to which Part 9 applies and the
person in charge of the authorised hospital is the person responsible under
that Part for notification of that event.
Note for this section:
The GAA Act section
110ZI or 110ZIA may apply in relation to the provision of urgent
non-psychiatric treatment to a patient referred to in section 242.
[Section 242 amended: No. 10 of 2023 s. 373.]