Patient may request no contact with stated person
19 Patient may request no contact with stated person
This section applies if a patient tells the person in charge of a secure mental health facility the patient does not want to be contacted by a stated person.
The person in charge of the facility must take reasonable steps to prevent the stated person contacting the patient.
Examples—reasonable steps
1 not allowing the stated person to visit the patient
2 not delivering mail from the stated person to the patient
3 not giving the patient telephone messages from the stated person
Note The name and contact details of the person the patient does not want contact with must be recorded in the patient’s health record (see s 20).
However, if the stated person is a health practitioner involved in the patient’s care or treatment, the person in charge of the facility must not prevent the stated person contacting the patient unless satisfied on reasonable grounds there are good reasons why the stated person should not contact the patient.
The patient may, at any time, tell the person in charge of the facility if the patient wants to again be contacted by the stated person.
The director-general may make a SMHF direction about steps to be taken for subsection (2).
Note A SMHF direction is a notifiable instrument (see s 9 (4)).
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