New advance care planning laws - implications for clinical practice
Presented on 28 February 2017
- The role of law in advance care planning
- Key changes to advance care directives, including the introduction of new binding instructional directives and values directives
- New responsibilities for health practitioners
- Key changes to medical treatment decision-making, particularly in relation to substitute decision-making for people without capacity
- Key impacts for clinical practice
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Advance care planning for health professionals: starting the conversation and understanding the law
Presented on 29 July 2015
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- Why is advance care planning important?
- A guide for health professionals on how to have the conversation
- Advance care planning legal issues, including
- decision-making capacity
- common law advance care directives, and
- substitute decision-making
- refusing treatment
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