New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

In this schedule, activity means the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Maintenance of Professional Standards Program.

The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of health practitioners enrolled in the activity by assessing the health services performed by those health practitioners.

The activity is based on information derived from health practitioners enrolled in the activity.

The activity includes—

• (a) auditing clinical practice by way of review and assessment of patient satisfaction surveys and randomly selected patient records, with particular focus on—

  • (i) clinical processes; and

  • (ii) patient care management; and

  • (iii) treatment outcomes; and

• (b) assessing particular activities or interventions undertaken by health practitioners to determine whether the activities or interventions—

  • (i) were appropriate; and

  • (ii) were of excellent quality; and

  • (iii) gave satisfaction to patients; and

• (c) reviewing clinical management; and

• (d) holding—

  • (i) peer review meetings; and

  • (ii) morbidity and mortality meetings; and

• (e) preparing documentation that summarises the results obtained under paragraphs (a) to (d); and

• (f) making recommendations on how health practitioners who are engaging in the activity can improve their performance so as to—

  • (i) improve the quality of care they provide; and

  • (ii) reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes; and

• (g) facilitating and monitoring the implementation of any such recommendations.