Nursing home “no returns” policy, when residents are discharged to the emergency department at 4 am: what does the law say?

• 1 School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW
• 2 Empowered Project, Capacity Australia, Sydney, NSW
• 3 Dementia Centre Research Collaboration, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW
• 4 Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW

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