Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A day hospital is a facility at which day hospital health services are provided to persons who are admitted to, and discharged from, the facility on the same day, but does not include a facility operated by the State.
(2) However, a facility is not a day hospital merely because a day hospital health service is provided to a person at the facility if--
(a) the service is provided to the person in an emergency; and
(b) it would be unreasonable, having regard to the health and wellbeing of the person, to move the person to another facility to receive the health service.
(3) In this section--
day hospital health service means any of the following health services--
(a) a diagnostic, surgical or other procedure performed by a medical practitioner involving--
(i) the administration of a general, spinal or epidural anaesthetic; or
(ii) sedation, other than simple sedation;
(b) a diagnostic, surgical or other procedure--
(i) performed by, or under the direction of, a medical practitioner; and
(ii) involving a significant risk that a person on whom the procedure is performed may, because of cardiac, respiratory or other complications arising from the performance of the procedure, require resuscitation; and
(iii) prescribed under a regulation.
simple sedation means the administration of one or more drugs to a person, that depress the person's central nervous system, to allow a procedure to be performed on the person by a medical practitioner in a way that--
(a) allows communication with the person to be maintained while the procedure is being performed; and
(b) makes loss of the person's consciousness unlikely.