Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005

Western Australia

CONTENTS

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Services that are “professional attention”1

Notes

Compilation table1

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005

1.Citation

This determination is the Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005.

2.Commencement

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 medical practitioner whose name is contained in a register of psychiatrists prepared and maintained under the Mental Health Act 1996 section 4 by the Medical Board.

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005. The following table contains information about those regulations.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005	25 Nov 2005 p. 5689	25 Nov 2005 (see cl. 2)