Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZGOSA Audit) Notice 2011

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  • Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZGOSA Audit) Notice 2011: revoked, on 6 April 2016, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

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Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZGOSA Audit) Notice 2011

(SR 2011/94)

Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZGOSA Audit) Notice 2011: revoked, on 6 April 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—ANZGOSA Audit) Notice 2011.

2 Commencement

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

3 Interpretation

In this notice, ANZGOSA means the Australian and New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgical Association Incorporated.

4 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity

The ANZGOSA Audit described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.

Schedule Description of ANZGOSA Audit

cl 4

1 Interpretation

In this schedule,—

activity means the ANZGOSA Audit described in clause 4

participant means a surgeon who is—

(a)

a member of ANZGOSA; and

(b)

involved in the treatment in New Zealand of—

(i)

oesophago-gastric cancer; or

(ii)

gastrointestinal stromal tumours; or

(iii)

oesophago-gastric cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumours; and

(c)

participating in the activity.

2 Objective

The objective of the activity is to ensure that the highest possible standard of surgical care and management is given by participants to patients in New Zealand with oesophago-gastric cancer or gastrointestinal stromal tumours.

3 Information

The activity is based on information derived from participants.

4 Activity

(1)

The activity is undertaken by ANZGOSA in collaboration with persons employed or engaged by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

(2)

The activity involves—

(a)

collecting from participants clinical and pathological data about patients with oesophago-gastric cancer or gastrointestinal stromal tumours; and

(b)

collating and analysing the data collected under paragraph (a); and

(c)

applying bi-national standards and clinical guidelines to the data collected under paragraph (a) to evaluate the surgical care and management performance of participants; and

(d)

providing individual participants with feedback on the evaluation undertaken under paragraph (c); and

(e)

making recommendations on how participants may improve their performance to ensure that patients are provided with the highest possible standard of surgical care and management; and

(f)

facilitating and monitoring any recommendation made under paragraph (e).

Dated at Wellington this 6th day of April 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 ANZGOSA Audit 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

  • 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.

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: 14 April 2011.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZGOSA Audit) 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)