5What is a health service?

5 What is a health service? For this Act, a health service is a service provided to someone (the service user) for any of the following purposes: (a) assessing, recording, maintaining or improving the physical, mental or emotional health, comfort or wellbeing of the service user; (b) diagnosing, treating or preventing an illness, disability, disorder or condition of the service user. 6 What is a health facility? health facility means the following facilities where health services are provided: (a) a hospital, including a day hospital; (b) a hospice; (c) a nursing home; (d) a health practitioner’s consulting room; (e) another facility ordinarily used by the Territory to provide health services; (f) any other facility prescribed by regulation for this section.

7 Who is a health service provider? health service provider— (a) means a health practitioner or other person who provides a health service; and (b) for a health facility, means a health service provider who— (i) provides a health service at the health facility; or (ii) uses the equipment or other facilities of the health facility to provide a health service elsewhere. Examples of people who may be health service providers 1 a chiropractor 2 a dentist 3 a dental technician 4 a dental prosthetist 5 a doctor 6 a nurse 7 an osteopath 8 an optometrist 9 a pharmacist 10 a physiotherapist

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