Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009

  • revoked
  • Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009: revoked, on 25 October 2014, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

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as at 25 October 2014

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Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009

(SR 2009/337)

  • Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009: revoked, on 25 October 2014, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

Pursuant to section 54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in section 54(3) of that Act, gives the following notice.

Notice

1 Title

  • This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009.

2 Commencement

  • This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

3 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity

  • The Central Otago Health Services Limited Medical Peer Review Activity described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.

Schedule 
Description of Central Otago Health Services Limited Medical Peer Review Activity

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1 Interpretation

  • In this schedule,—

    activity means the Central Otago Health Services Limited Medical Peer Review Activity

    participant means a health practitioner who—

    • (a) is employed by Central Otago Health Services Limited; and

    • (b) provides health services at Dunstan Hospital.

2 Objectives

  • The objectives of the activity are to enable—

    • (a) review of the health services provided by the participants to ensure the best possible clinical standards of practice are being achieved and maintained; and

    • (b) improvement in the quality of care provided to patients.

3 Information

  • The activity is based on information derived from participants.

4 Activity

  • The activity involves—

    • (a) examining mortality and morbidity data to—

      • (i) identify and examine trends; and

      • (ii) compare it with national guidelines; and

    • (b) conducting clinical audits to identify any improvements that may be made to—

      • (i) clinical practices and procedures; and

      • (ii) health services provided to patients; and

    • (c) reviewing cases that have involved any 1 or more of the following:

      • (i) an unexpected death; and

      • (ii) an outcome that may, but need not, be an adverse outcome; and

      • (iii) an unexpected transfer to another hospital; and

      • (iv) a readmission within 1 week of discharge; and

      • (v) concerns about patient care management; and

    • (d) holding peer review meetings to discuss the information gathered under paragraphs (a) to (c); and

    • (e) making recommendations on how participants can—

      • (i) update their practices; and

      • (ii) improve the quality of the health services provided to patients; and

    • (f) facilitating and monitoring the implementation of any recommendations made under paragraph (e).

Dated at Wellington this 25th  day of October 2009.

Hon Tony Ryall,
Minister of Health.

Explanatory note

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 quality assurance activity called the Central Otago Health Services Limited Medical Peer Review Activity to be a protected quality assurance activity. The effect of this declaration is that—

  • 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.

The protections afforded by this notice are subject to certain statutory exceptions. For example, this notice does not prohibit the disclosure of information that does not identify, either expressly or by implication, a particular individual.

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.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 5 November 2009.

Reprints notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Central Otago Health Services Limited) Notice 2009 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

  • Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

  • Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48): section 54(4)