Summary
Date: 21 September 2020
The RACGP provided a submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability in response to the Restrictive practices issues paper.
The submission covers the following topics:
- Restrictive practices in general practice and in other healthcare settings
- Frequency, circumstances and other factors that contribute to the use of restrictive practices
- The effects of restrictive practices
- Gaps (and subsequent impacts) in current approaches to restrictive practices
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability
- Rules and safeguards that should be applied in the use of restrictive practices
- Preventing, avoiding, minimising restrictive practices
- Alternatives to restrictive practices to prevent or address behaviours of concern