MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 79
Discharge and other planning
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 79
Discharge and other planning
79 Discharge and other planning
(1) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must take all
reasonably practicable steps to ensure that a patient or person detained in
the facility, and any designated carer and the principal care provider (if the
principal care provider is not a designated carer) of the patient or person,
are consulted in relation to planning the patient's or person's discharge and
any subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the patient
or person.
(2) In planning the discharge of any such patient or person, and
any subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the patient
or person, the authorised medical officer must take all reasonably practicable
steps to consult with agencies involved in providing relevant services to the
patient or person, any designated carer and the principal care provider (if
the principal care provider is not a designated carer) of the patient or
person and any dependent children or other dependants of the patient or
person.
(3) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must
take all reasonably practicable steps to provide any such patient or person
who is discharged from the facility, and any designated carer and the
principal care provider (if the principal care provider is not a
designated carer) of the patient or person, with appropriate information as to
follow-up care.