Touchstone’s Advance Care Plans enable you to nominate a substitute decision maker. However, depending on your state or territory, only certain substitute decision makers might be recognised at law. Depending in your state or territory a substitute decision-maker is also known as a medical treatment decision maker or a person responsible. A health practitioner may be obliged to consult a legally recognised substitute decision-maker rather than the person you nominate on your Advance Care Plan. We therefore strongly recommend you seek advice in your own state or territory as to how to formally appoint a substitute decision maker (or medical treatment decision maker/person responsible), consistent with the person nominated in your Advance Care Plan.