Who can be a designated healthcare representative?

As a designated healthcare representative, your role is to make people aware of the person’s advance healthcare directive when they need to be and to ensure the person’s advance healthcare directive is followed.

Some people cannot be a designated healthcare representative. You are not allowed to be a designated healthcare representative if you:

• have been convicted of an offence against the person or their child.
• are the owner or a registered provider of a designated centre or mental health facility where the person lives (unless you are a relative of the person)
• provide paid personal care or healthcare services to the person (unless you are a relative or their primary carer).