Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
586Intensive monitored supervision clinical committee
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586 Intensive monitored supervision clinical committee
(1) The Institute must establish a clinical committee for the purposes of this Chapter comprising—
(a) an authorised psychiatrist of the Institute; and
(b) a senior clinical staff member in an executive role employed by the Institute, or their nominee; and
(c) a person who identifies as experiencing, or as having experienced, mental illness or psychological distress, and whose experience is relevant to patients who are subject to intensive monitored supervision orders; and
(d) any other person nominated by the authorised psychiatrist to be on the committee.
(2) The committee has the following functions—
(a) to provide reports to the chief psychiatrist on a weekly basis;
(b) to conduct reviews.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), a report must review—
(a) the progress of the patient's treatment or therapeutic intervention having regard to the patient's supervision plan; and
(b) the progress towards the patient no longer being subject to an intensive monitored supervision order.