Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination 2015 (WA)

5076 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 18 December 2015

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Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital

Facility) Determination 2015

Made by the Minister under section 2(3) of the Act.

1.             Citation

This determination is the Hospitals and Health Services (Day
Hospital Facility) Determination 2015.

2.             Commencement

This determination comes into operation as follows —

(a)	clauses 1 and 2 — on the day on which this determination is published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the determination — on the day after that day.

3.             Services that are “professional attention”

(1)	In this clause —
mental illness has the meaning given in the Mental Health Act 2014 section 6;
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 has the meaning given in the Mental Health Act 2014 section 4.
(2)	A psychiatric treatment programme is determined to be professional attention for the purposes of the definition of day hospital facility in section 2(1) of the Act if it —

(a)	is for a patient who has a mental illness; and
(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.

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 Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005 repealed

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Determination (No. 2) 2005 is repealed.

K. HAMES, Minister.