52Meaning of multidisciplinary case conference team

52 Meaning of multidisciplinary case conference team

(1) For this table, a multidisciplinary case conference team:

(a) includes a medical practitioner; and

(b) includes at least 2 other members, each of whom provides a different kind of care or service to the patient and is not a family carer of the patient, and 1 of whom may be another medical practitioner; and

(c) may additionally include a family carer of the patient.

Examples of persons who, for paragraph (b), may be included in a team are:

Note: (a) allied health professionals such as:

 Aboriginal health care workers

 asthma educators

 audiologists

 dental therapists

 dentists

 diabetes educators

 dieticians

 mental health workers

 occupational therapists

 optometrists

 orthoptists

 orthotists or prosthetists

 pharmacists

 physiotherapists

 podiatrists

 psychologists

 registered nurses

 social workers

 speech pathologists; and

Note: (b) home and community service providers, or care organisers, such as:

 education providers

 ‘meals on wheels’ providers

 personal care workers

 probation officers.

(2) In subrule (1):

family carer includes a person who:

(a) is a relative or friend of the patient; and

(b) is providing care to the patient other than as a paid service.

53 Meaning of organise and co-ordinate in a multidisciplinary case conference and participation in a multidisciplinary case conference

(1) For items 734, 736, 738, 740, 742, 744, 746, 749 and 757, organise and co-ordinate a multidisciplinary case conference means undertaking all of the following activities in relation to a case conference:

(a) explaining to the patient the nature of a multidisciplinary case conference, and asking the patient whether the patient agrees to the conference taking place;

(b) recording the patient’s agreement to the conference;

(c) recording the day on which the conference was held, and the times at which the conference started and ended;

(d) recording the names of the participants;

(e) recording the matters mentioned in rule 49, and putting a copy of that record in the patient’s medical records;