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1. Voluntary patients can refuse ECT, in FREE CALL STATEWIDE: 1800 620 285
non-emergency situations. Facsimile: (08) 9328 8577 AUTHORISING
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2. Involuntary patients:
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i) In non-emergency situations, a person can
lawfully administer ECT to an involuntary
patient only if ECT has been recommended by
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the patients treating psychiatrist and
approved by another psychiatrist. Other MHLC Publications:
Mental Health Law Centre
ii) The approving psychiatrist will consider :
Patients Rights Guide
if ECT is likely to help you;
Community Treatment Orders
whether or not you can give informed Psychiatric Treatment
consent to the treatment; and Voluntary Hospital Patients
if you have consented to the treatment. Involuntary Hospital Patients
iv) If the approving psychiatrist does not agree Electroconvulsive Treatment
that ECT is the right treatment for you, then the Criminal Law, Mental Illness and Men-
tal Impairment in Western Australia
ECT decision must be referred to the Mental
Pocket Guide to Communicating with
Health Review Board by the psychiatrist a member of the public who may be
recommending ECT, before ECT is delivered. unwell