Professional Development
NT PHN presents – Free Webinar ‘Understanding the new NT Health Care Decision Making Act 2023’ with the NT Public Guardian
NT PHN presents – Free Webinar ‘Understanding the new NT Health Care Decision Making Act 2023’ with the NT Public Guardian
Join the NT PHN and the NT’s Public Guardian, Beth Walker, to learn more about the new Healthcare Decision-Making Act 2023.
Who is this Webinar for?
Health professionals who:
- need to apply the Health Care Decision making Act 2023 for patients with impaired capacity.
- are involved in healthcare decision-making for adult guardianship or for adults who do not have an advanced personal plan.
- assist next of kin, close friends, & decision-makers to obtain consent, consistent with Aboriginal culture or custom, for health care if someone has impaired capacity.
Webinar Outline
Healthcare Decision Making Act 2023 commencing 1st July 2024
The new legislation addresses the gap in Northern Territory law concerning health care decision making for people who have lost some or all of their capacity to make their own health care decisions. It also governs the provision of urgent health care without consent to adults and children following the repeal of the Emergency Medical Operations Act 1973. The Act establishes a hierarchy of possible health care decision makers including family and close friends, including formal recognition of First Nations kin who can lawfully provide consent on behalf of the patient.
The legislation will:
- Provide for health care decision making in the absence of an advance personal plan or guardianship regarding adults.
- Assist with clear decision-making hierarchy, that includes next of kin and close friends and decisions makers under Aboriginal culture or custom to obtain consent for health care if someone has impaired capacity.
- Provide consistent health care decision-making principles across all supported & substituted decision making in the Northern Territory.
- Replaces the Emergency Medical Operations Act 1973 and defines routine, significant and emergency treatments.
- Provide for a focus on supported decision making to enable facilitated capacity to make their own decisions.
For further information and guidelines refer to Health Care Decision Making | Northern Territory Public Guardian and Trustee
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Analyse key elements of the Health Care Decision making Act 2023
- Assess patient’s ability to consent for treatment by applying relevant considerations. Please also refer to PGT_Adult Patient Consent_Flowchart_A3_FA
- Apply the Health Care Decision making Act 2023 for patients with impaired capacity.
- Understand and implement the process to obtain health consent from the Public Guardian and Trustee. Please see link to our Health Care Decision Request Form pgt_-_health_care_decision_request_form.docx (live.com)
- Evaluate the Health Care Decision Making Act’s impact on professional practice.
CPD
*One hour of self-reported CPD.
*As a general guide, one hour of active learning equates to one hour of CPD. It is the responsibility of the individual student to calculate how many hours of active learning have been completed. The hours of active learning estimated above should act as a guide to CPD hours.
Questions?
Contact: events@ntphn.org.au
