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22 Jun. 2023
Deidre Brophy
Health care worker
A prohibition order was issued to Deidre Brophy on 22 June 2023.
The practitioner is prohibited permanently from providing any health service, paid or otherwise, in a clinical or non-clinical capacity.
Scope of Practice
This means the practitioner must not provide any health services at all.
The prohibition imposed on the practitioner, includes but is not limited to the following:
- Claiming or representing that the practitioner is qualified, able, or willing, to treat, diagnose, or cure cancer, skin cancer, melanomas, skin lesions, lumps, or any other disease or illness;
- By any means providing, providing advice about, recommending, promoting, or selling, any herbal medicine, any alternative or complimentary medicine, or any naturopathy services;
- By any means providing, providing advice about, applying (topically or for ingestion), manufacturing, supplying, selling, recommending or promoting to any person, any product, therapy or other treatment involving any of the common ingredients of Black Salve, Cansema, or Kan Kil;
- Operating any website or shop to provide for sale products designed to improve a person’s health and wellbeing, or providing recommendations and information about such products;
- The use of thermal imaging, instructing others on the use of thermal imaging, or recommending or promoting (by any means) thermal imaging to any persons, in any circumstances;
- Providing massages to any persons.
- For the purpose of this order, the common ingredients of Black Salve, Cansema and Kan Kil include but are not limited to:
- Bloodroot
- Sanguinarine
- Sanguinaria canandensis
- Zinc chloride
- Dimethyl sulfoxide
- Nordihydroguaiaretic acid
- Chapparal
- Larrea divaricate
- Levodopa
Period of action or order
The prohibition order will continue to have effect until:
- the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal sets aside the decision, or
- the Health Ombudsman decides to revoke the order pursuant to section 90M of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013.