Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011

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  • Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011: revoked, on 18 March 2016, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

Reprint as at 18 March 2016

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Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011

(SR 2011/64)

Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011: revoked, on 18 March 2016, 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—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011.

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 Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection Quality Assurance Activity described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.

Schedule  Description of Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection Quality Assurance Activity

cl 3

1 Interpretation

In this schedule,—

activity means the activity described in clause 4

participant means a medical practitioner who is—

(a)

practising in New Zealand; and

(b)

training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians to be a physician or a paediatrician; and

(c)

participating in the activity

professional qualities reflection means a written report, completed using the Professional Qualities Reflection Tool of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, that—

(a)

identifies a significant incident; and

(b)

identifies, in relation to the significant incident, changes in the approach or to the behaviour of participants or other health practitioners that may influence the quality of care of an individual patient

significant incident means a process or practice undertaken by the participant or another health practitioner that is perceived by the participant to be relevant to his or her training and development.

2 Objective

The objective of the activity is to improve the practices, competence, and understanding of participants by requiring them to record and discuss their analyses of significant incidents that occur during their training.

3 Information

The activity is based on information derived from the participants.

4 Activity

The activity involves a participant—

(a)

completing, from time to time, a professional qualities reflection; and

(b)

discussing the professional qualities reflection with his or her educational supervisor or professional development adviser.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of March 2011.

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 Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection Quality Assurance 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 people 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.

This notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, unless it is sooner revoked.

This notice replaces the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Significant Incident Review) Notice 2009, which is revoked.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 24 March 2011.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians Professional Qualities Reflection) Notice 2011 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

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

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