Victorian statement of rights - Voluntary treatment

Voluntary treatment is when you choose to receive treatment from a mental health service. You don’t have to have treatment if you don’t want it.

Treatment can be medication such as tablets or injections. This can be in a hospital or in the community. You are free to leave the hospital or stop seeing staff in the community whenever you want.

Statements of rights are documents that set out a person’s rights and the processes that apply, while a person is receiving a mental health and wellbeing service under the Act. Statements of rights are approved by the Chief Officer for Mental Health and Wellbeing.