Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071:reg:80
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 80
Character Range: 138203–139144

80  Circumstances relating to provision of enteral feeding
  For paragraph 78(1)(c), the circumstances for the provision of enteral feeding are as follows:
 (a) a medical practitioner must have certified, in writing, that the care recipient has a medical need for enteral feeding;
 (b) the care recipient must have been given a liquid dietary formula (not including food supplements or any supplementary feeding connected with the administration of the dietary formula) administered by a nasogastric, gastrostomy or jejeunostomy feeding method;
 (c) a medical practitioner or dietician must have certified, in writing, that the dietary formula is a nutritionally complete formula;
 (d) the enteral feeding must not be intermittent or supplementary enteral feeding given in addition to oral feeding;
 (e) the enteral feeding must be provided in the most economical way available, taking into account the medical needs of the care recipient.