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2008/431
Pursuant to section 54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health gives the following notice.
This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine) Notice 2008.
This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
The Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine quality assurance activity called the Maintenance of Professional Standards Program and described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.
Schedule |
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.
Dated at Auckland this 24th day of October 2008.
D R 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 the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, declares the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Maintenance of Professional Standards Program to be a protected quality assurance activity. The effect of this declaration is that, subject to certain exceptions,—
any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confidential; and
any documents brought into existence solely for the purposes of the activity are confidential; and
the persons who engage in the activity in good faith are immune from civil liability.
Under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, this notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, unless it is sooner revoked.
Date of notification in Gazette: 13 November 2008.
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.