Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005
Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005
CONTENTS
1.Citation1
2.Commencement1
3.Services that are “professional attention”1
Notes
Compilation table3
Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals and Health Services (
This determination comes into operation on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.
3.Services that are “professional attention”
(1)A psychiatric treatment programme that —
(a)is for a patient who has a mental illness;
(b)is provided by a multi‑disciplinary team under the direction and supervision of a psychiatrist; and
(c)is a half or full day programme that consists of more than one type of mainstream therapeutic activity,
is determined to be professional attention for the purposes of the definition of “day hospital facility” in section 2(1) of the Act.
(2)In this clause —
mental illness has the meaning given to that term in the Mental Health Act 1996 section 4;
multi-disciplinary team means a team of health professionals that includes at least one psychiatrist, one clinical psychologist, one registered mental health nurse, one occupational therapist and one social worker;
psychiatrist means a person whose name is contained in the register of specialist psychiatrists kept by the Medical Board of Australia under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (
[Clause 3 amended in Gazette 1 Apr 2011 p. 1185.]
1This is a compilation of the Hospitals and Health Services (
Citation |
Gazettal |
Commencement |
Hospitals and Health Services ( |
25 Nov 2005 p. 5689 |
25 Nov 2005 (see cl. 2) |
Hospital and Health Services ( |
1 Apr 2011 p. 1184-5 |
cl. 1 and 2: 1 Apr 2011 (see cl. 2(a)); |