Dr. Louise Campbell:

The question of screening is fundamentally important. Again, screening for capacity and screening for voluntary assisted dying are separate but also kind of conjoined. Training for doctors and for mandatory second professional opinions, are vitally important. Provisions are made in existing legislation for these mechanisms to be in place. They are generally followed. There may be exceptions because there are exceptions to everything, as Senator Mullen has pointed out, but I am actually not aware of that case.

With regard to what is being screened for and what it is that health practitioners are expected to identify or look for in the screening process, that would be a matter for a multidisciplinary consultative panel to discuss, across psychiatry, mental health, general practice and other health and social care professions, including social work and palliative care. That would really have to be discussed with the relevant stakeholders and perhaps some patient advocacy groups or disability activist groups as well. I do not know if that covers exactly what the Deputy was asking.