Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 201

201 Examination of patient for purpose of providing treatment and care

(1) This section does not apply to a patient subject to a treatment authority, other than a patient subject to a treatment authority who becomes a classified patient.

Note—

See section 53 for deciding the nature and extent of treatment and care under a treatment authority.

(2) An authorised doctor must examine the patient and decide the nature and extent of treatment and care to be provided to the patient.

(3) The examination must be made—

(a) as soon as practicable after the person becomes a patient to whom this part applies; or

(b) if a patient subject to a treatment authority, forensic order or treatment support order becomes a classified patient—as soon as practicable after the patient becomes a classified patient.

(4) In deciding the treatment and care to be provided to the patient, the authorised doctor must—

(a) discuss the treatment and care to be provided with the patient; and

(b) have regard to the views, wishes and preferences of the patient, to the extent they can be expressed, including, for example, in an advance health directive.