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Report 121 (2009) - Emergency medical care and the restricted right to practise


Appendix A: Medical Practice Act 1992 (NSW) section 36

Updates and background for this project (Digest)

      36 Meaning of “unsatisfactory professional conduct”

      (1) For the purposes of this Act, unsatisfactory professional conduct of a registered medical practitioner includes each of the following:


        ...

        (c) Contravention of conditions of registration

        Any contravention by the practitioner (whether by act or omission) of a condition to which his or her registration is subject....

        (l) Failing to render urgent attention

        Refusing or failing, without reasonable cause, to attend (within a reasonable time after being requested to do so) on a person for the purpose of rendering professional services in the capacity of a registered medical practitioner in any case where the practitioner has reasonable cause to believe that the person is in need of urgent attention by a registered medical practitioner, unless the practitioner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that another registered medical practitioner attends instead within a reasonable time.

        (m) Other improper or unethical conduct

        Any other improper or unethical conduct relating to the practice or purported practice of medicine.





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