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Mental Health Act 2016
sec.292Responsibilities
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sec.292 Responsibilities
A patient’s nominated support persons, family, carers and other support persons have a responsibility to— respect the patient’s dignity and humanity; and consider the opinions and skills of health practitioners who provide treatment and care, and other services, to the patient; and cooperate, to the extent practicable, with reasonable programs of assessment, treatment, care, support, rehabilitation and recovery of the patient.
- (a) respect the patient’s dignity and humanity; and
- (b) consider the opinions and skills of health practitioners who provide treatment and care, and other services, to the patient; and
- (c) cooperate, to the extent practicable, with reasonable programs of assessment, treatment, care, support, rehabilitation and recovery of the patient.