Record Queensland early mental-health treatment while a claim is still assessed
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the lodgement date, the work capacity certificate and the injury description, using a firm-controlled tool, list the early mental-health treatment the claim page states. Do not decide that a payment is due, and do not enter a week limit.
- What the lawyer must review
- You decide whether early treatment is available. The tool does not.
- Do not enter a week limit or an interim weekly payment. The page states neither.
- Do not treat the page's usual claim time as section 131.
- Use a firm-controlled tool. Check ASCR r 9, APP 11 and any notifiable breach.
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Early treatment on an undecided Queensland psychological claim
Produce. A list of the treatment the page names. No payment decision and no week count.
Have ready. The lodgement date; The work capacity certificate; Whether a previous similar psychological claim is known.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The certificate names a psychological injury and the claim was lodged last week. The list records counselling and says hospital admission is outside the early-treatment list. It does not say a weekly payment will be made.
Stop and hand it back when
- No claim has been lodged, or the certificate does not confirm a psychological injury.
- The question is weekly compensation rather than this early treatment.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the lodgement date, the work capacity certificate and the injury description, using a firm-controlled tool, list the early mental-health treatment the claim page states. Do not decide that a payment is due, and do not enter a week limit. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Require both a lodged claim and a certificate of a psychological injury.
- List only the treatment the page names, and the hospital costs it excludes.
- Leave weekly pay and any week count blank.
Sources
- WorkSafe Queensland: making a claim · 2026-10-23
- Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) s 131 · 2026-10-23
Health, wage and scheme records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Check ASCR r 9, APP 11, and whether a disclosure is notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
The claim page says early mental-health treatment can be funded while the claim is assessed if a claim has been lodged and a work capacity certificate confirms a psychological injury. The list is GP mental-health appointments, counselling or psychology, psychiatry, reasonable travel, and medication such as antidepressants. In-patient hospital costs and hospital-stay costs are not covered. If the claim is not accepted, funding stops, and the page says the worker will not have to pay back treatment already received. A previous psychological claim from the same or a similar circumstance is raised with the insurer. No week limit is stated.
The same page says a claim is often lodged within 6 months of first seeing a doctor, and it uses the words usually and often. Section 131 is different: the application is valid only if lodged within 6 months after the entitlement arises. If it is lodged more than 20 business days after the entitlement arises, liability starts no earlier than 20 business days before lodgement, with a death exception and the waiver routes in subsections (4) to (6). Those two clocks are not the same.