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resources of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and has been used with permission.  \nContents  \n1 Western Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Guidelines 1  \n 1.1 Voluntary assisted dying terminology 2  \n 1.1.1 Key terms 2  \n2 The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 6  \n 2.1 The legal context of voluntary assisted dying for practitioners 7  \n 2.1.1 Protections 7  \n 2.1.2 Offences 7  \n 2.1.3 Professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct 8  \n 2.2 The Voluntary Assisted Dying Board 8  \n 2.2.1 The Voluntary Assisted Dying – Information Management System (VAD-IMS) 9  \n3 Voluntary assisted dying as an end-of-life choice 10  \n 3.1 The importance of palliative care 11  \n 3.2 Health professionals and voluntary assisted dying 12  \n 3.3 Ensuring the rights of patients 12  \n 3.4 Health service involvement in voluntary assisted dying 13  \n4 Preparing to participate in voluntary assisted dying 15  \n 4.1 Becoming a participating practitioner 15  \n 4.2 Practitioner eligibility for specific roles under the Act 16  \n 4.2.1 Eligibility to act as Coordinating Practitioner or Consulting Practitioner 17  \n 4.2.2 Eligibility to act as Administering Practitioner 17  \n 4.2.3 A Note on referees 17  \n 4.3 Practitioner eligibility verification to access the WA VAD Approved Training 18  \n 4.4 The WA VAD Approved Training 18  \n5 Participating practitioner roles 20  \n 5.1 Coordinating Practitioner 20  \n 5.1.1 Information sharing between care providers 21  \n 5.2 Consulting Practitioner 25  5.3 Administering Practitioner 26  \n 5.3.1 Information sharing between care providers 26  \n6 Restrictions on communicating about voluntary assisted dying 27  \n 6.1 The Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 27  \n6.2 Initiating a discussion about voluntary assisted dying 28  \nWestern Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Guidelines | i  \n7 The First Request 29  \n 7.1 What is a First Request? 30  \n 7.1.1 What is not considered a First Request? 30  \n 7.2 Responding to a First Request 30  \n 7.2.1 Deciding to accept or refuse the First Request 31  \n 7.2.2 Accepting the First Request 31  \n 7.2.3 Refusing the First Request 31  \n 7.3 Providing the information approved by the Director General of Health 32  \n 7.4 Documenting the First Request 32  \n 7.5 Handling an enquiry from an ineligible person before it becomes a First Request 33  \n8 The First Assessment 34  \n 8.1 Assess the person’s demographic eligibility 34  \n 8.1.1 Age requirement 34  \n 8.1.2 Citizenship or permanent residency requirement 35  \n 8.1.3 Ordinarily resident requirement 35  \n8.2 Assess whether the person’s disease, illness or medical condition meets the  \n eligibility criteria 36  8.2.1 Diagnosis 36  8.2.2 Prognosis 36  8.2.3 When to refer for a determination on diagnosis or prognosis 37  8.2.4 Registered health practitioner determination regarding diagnosis or prognosis 37  8.2.5 Suffering 38  8.3 Assessing the person’s decision-making capacity 38  8.3.1 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