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2008/364
Pursuant to sections 13 and 14(2) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, the Minister of Health gives the following notice.
This notice is the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008.
This notice comes into force on 1 June 2009.
This notice approves for providing hospital care, residential disability care, and rest home care Health and Disability Services Standards NZS 8134:2008, comprising—
(a) Health and Disability Services (General) Standard, NZS 8134.0:2008:
(b) Health and Disability Services (Core) Standards, NZS 8134.1:2008:
(c) Health and Disability Services (Restraint Minimisation and Safe Practice) Standards, NZS 8134.2:2008:
(d) Health and Disability Services (Infection Prevention and Control) Standards, NZS 8134.3:2008.
(1) The approval of the following standards under section 13 of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 is revoked:
(a) Infection Control, NZS 8142:2000:
(b) Restraint Minimization and Safe Practice, NZS 8141:2001:
(c) Health and Disability Sector Standards, NZS 8134:2001
(d) National Mental Health Sector Standard, NZS 8143:2001.
(2) The Health and Disability Services (Safety) Hospital Care, Residential Disability Care, and Rest Home Care Standards Notice 2002 (SR 2002/24) is revoked.
Dated at Wellington this 26th day of September 2008.
David Cunliffe,
Minister of Health.
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into force on 1 June 2009, approves new standards for providing hospital care, residential disability care, and rest home care.
The notice revokes—
the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Hospital Care, Residential Disability Care, and Rest Home Care Standards Notice 2002, which approved 4 earlier standards; and
the approval of those standards.
Date of notification in Gazette: 2 October 2008.
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.