20Provision of unsupervised non-emergency patient transport services

20 Provision of unsupervised non-emergency patient transport services

(1)  The licensee of an NEPT Service must ensure that a crew member who is employed as a clinical escort for the Service does not provide unsupervised non-emergency patient transport services on behalf of the Service unless he or she is authorised to do so under his or her scope of practice as a clinical escort.

(2)  The licensee of an NEPT Service must ensure that a crew member who is employed as a patient-transport officer for the Service does not provide unsupervised non-emergency patient transport services on behalf of the Service unless the crew member –

(a) holds a current registration under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania) that authorises care that is equal to, or exceeds, his or her scope of practice as a patient-transport officer; or

(b) has completed at least 80 hours of supervised clinical practice experience within the first 6 months of his or her employment with the licensee; or

(c) has completed the training required to be provided to a crew member under regulation 23(2) if the patient-transport officer was previously employed by another NEPT Service, or ambulance service, within the 12-month period immediately before being employed or engaged by the licensee.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.

(3)  A crew member of an NEPT Service must not provide unsupervised non-emergency patient transport services on behalf of the Service if he or she knows, or reasonably ought to know, that he or she is not authorised to provide those services unsupervised.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 2 penalty units.