Assessment criteria—general and individual treatment plans
13 Assessment criteria—general and individual treatment plans
An assessment committee may only approve a proposed treatment plan if there is sufficient evidence that—
the prescribed people to whom the plan applies would be reasonably likely to suffer significant physical or psychological harm (the primary harm) if the proposed treatment or an alternative treatment option were not undertaken; and
alternative treatment options have been sufficiently considered; and
the proposed treatment is no more restrictive of the ability to make a decision about a prescribed person’s sex characteristics in the future than any alternative treatment option.
For this section, an alternative treatment option to a proposed treatment is a medical or non‑medical treatment or procedure, including delayed treatment or procedure, which, taking into account the primary harm and any associated harm of the proposed and alternative treatment options, is as effective as the proposed treatment.
In this section:
associated harm, of a treatment of a prescribed person, means any physical or psychological harm that the prescribed person would be reasonably likely to suffer if the treatment were undertaken.
Examples
1 physical side effects
2 psychological harm to the prescribed person because they are required to be away from family for extended periods to have the treatment
sex characteristics—see section 7 (2).
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