Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - General status and specific rights - Specific rights of care recipients

53: Right to independent health and disability advice

You could also call this:

"You can choose someone to give you a second opinion about your care."

Illustration for Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

You have the right to get a second opinion about your condition from a specialist assessor you choose. This means you can ask someone who is not already involved in your care to look at your situation and give you their opinion. You can pick anyone you want to be your specialist assessor.

If the specialist assessor you choose agrees to help you, they must be allowed to see you when they want to. This is so they can talk to you and get the information they need to give you a second opinion. The specialist assessor needs to be able to see you to do their job properly.

You can find more information about this right by looking at the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 and similar laws, such as the 1992 No 46 s 69.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
General status and specific rights: Specific rights of care recipients

53Right to independent health and disability advice

Every care recipient is entitled to seek a consultation with a specialist assessor of his or her own choice for the purpose of obtaining a second opinion about the care recipient's condition.
If the specialist assessor agrees to the consultation, the specialist assessor must be permitted access to the care recipient when he or she requests to see the care recipient.

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1992 No 46 s 69