Health service

A health service refers to any service that maintains, improves, restores, or cares for a person’s health or wellbeing. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Personal care for someone who is ill, injured, or infirm, such as:
  • Assistance with personal hygiene
  • Help with dressing
  • Support provided by hospital assistants in a ward of a hospital, including lifting and turning bedridden patients and moving patients from a place to another place.
• Respite care
• Services provided by practitioners of natural or alternative health care, including:
  • Hypnosis
  • Naturopathy
  • Acupuncture
• Massage services, including relaxation massage
• Services provided by health students in their student capacity
• Any other service prescribed by regulation as a health service.