That Corrections Victoria and Correct Care Australasia and/or the Health Service Provider at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre develop and implement a robust procedure for ‘clearance’ of a prisoner (at initial reception or subsequently) from the Medical/Health Centre to a cell elsewhere at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre that requires certification in writing by a medical practitioner that the prisoner is fit to be confined in an unobserved cell.

27.1. The medical practitioner’s certification should include: 27.1.1. confirmation that the prisoner is medically fit to leave the Medical/Health Centre; 27.1.2. whether the medical practitioner recommends any medical or management observations to ensure the prisoner’s health or wellbeing; 27.1.3. identification of any specific clinical deterioration risk indicators the medical practitioner recommends custodial and health staff monitor; and 27.1.4. instructions to guide the response, including escalation of the prisoner’s care, if clinical deterioration risk indicators are observed.

27.2. If no medical practitioner is available, written certification may be provided by a registered nurse, but any prisoner cleared by a registered nurse should be placed on 60/60 management observations pending medical practitioner review of the prisoner as soon as practicable thereafter.