Page 4754 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 7 December 1994
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Page 3, clause 3, definition of "test results", subparagraph (b), omit "material", substitute "tissue".
Page 3, clause 4, add new subclause (1):
"4. (1) The Medical Officer of Health shall inform the patient -
(a) of her right to choose not to participate in the program and contribute data to the register; and
(b) that failure to participate in the program will not affect her right to have the test performed.".
Pages 3 and 4, clause 4, subclauses (2), (3) and (4), omit "material", substitute "tissue".
Page 5, clause 7, paragraph (3)(c), after "taken", insert "or other recommended follow-up".
Page 6, clause 8, subclause (1), omit "reasonable excuse", substitute "good reason".
Page 6, clause 9, omit "reasonable excuse", substitute "good reason".
Page 7, clause 11, omit "material", substitute "tissue".
Page 7, clause 11, paragraph (h), after "results -", add "either".
Page 7, clause 11, add ", or the details of other management recommendations (that is, colposcopy plus biopsy).".
These regulations were tabled in the Assembly during the October sittings. As we always do, Madam Speaker, we sent these out to the various interested bodies, and a number of responses were sent back to us from the AMA in Queensland, the ACT AMA, the pathologists and the Federal AMA. The amendments that I have circulated are in accordance with recommendations from those bodies.
The first amendment suggests that the word "growth" should be replaced with "development and appearances". The reason for this is that the amended definition is more technically accurate because a smear test may be abnormal without there necessarily being abnormal cell growth in the cervix. It is a medical definition. "Growth" would tend to indicate that there is a real growth. There does not have to be for there to be an abnormal cervical smear. Madam Speaker, I will go through all of the amendments one by one to save time. The next amendment comes from the Federal AMA, which suggests that we should omit the word "material" and substitute "tissue". The amended definition
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