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title: "Record Queensland early mental-health treatment while a claim is still assessed"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-early-treatment-and-interim-pay-while-a-mental-injury-claim-is-un/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-WC20261023-2-QLD"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Record Queensland early mental-health treatment while a claim is still assessed

> 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.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-early-treatment-and-interim-pay-while-a-mental-injury-claim-is-un/queensland  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| 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. |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Record early treatment and interim pay while a mental-injury claim is undecided](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-early-treatment-and-interim-pay-while-a-mental-injury-claim-is-un.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The page funds listed mental-health treatment while a lodged psychological claim is assessed. It does not state interim weekly pay.

- What the AI does: 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 does: Make the legal assessment, check the source material and authorise the output for its intended use.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Require both a lodged claim and a certificate of a psychological injury.
2. List only the treatment the page names, and the hospital costs it excludes.
3. Leave weekly pay and any week count blank.

## Notes

- 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.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Early treatment on an undecided Queensland psychological claim

**Deliverable**: A list of the treatment the page names. No payment decision and no week count.

**Inputs**

- The lodgement date
- The work capacity certificate
- Whether a previous similar psychological claim is known

**Example**: 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 escalate 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.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [WorkSafe Queensland: making a claim](https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/workers-compensation/compensation-claims/making-a-claim) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) s 131](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/wcara2003400/s131.html) (checked 2026-10-23)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*