Human Rights Commission Regulation 2023

This section applies to information a health care worker gives a person in relation to a health service.

Examples

 information given when consulting a client

 information included in an advertisement

 information given to a professional body for a health service

The health care worker must not—

give false, misleading or deceptive information about, or otherwise misrepresent, any of the following:

a health service the health care worker provides;

the health care worker’s competence to provide a health service;

the health care worker’s experience, training and qualification in relation to providing a health service;

the health care worker’s professional affiliation;

the health care worker’s ability to provide treatment; or

make a claim about the efficacy of a health service if the claim cannot be substantiated.