57Meaning of multidisciplinary case conference team

57 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. Example 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. 58 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 54, and putting a copy of that record in the patient’s medical records; (f) offering the patient and the patient’s carer (if any and if the practitioner considers appropriate and the patient agrees), and giving each other member of the team, a summary of the conference; (g) discussing the outcomes of the conference with the patient and the patient’s carer (if any and if the practitioner considers appropriate and the patient agrees). (2) For items 759, 762, 765, 768, 771, 773, 775, 778 and 779, participation in a multidisciplinary case conference must be at the request of the person who organises and co‑ordinates the conference, and involves 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 practitioner’s participation in the conference; (b) recording the patient’s agreement to the practitioner’s participation; (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 54, and putting a copy of that record in the patient’s medical records. (3) Participation in a multidisciplinary case conference does not include organising and co‑ordinating a multidisciplinary case conference.