Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013

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  • Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013: revoked (after expiring on 15 August 2018), on 9 August 2019, by clause 5 of the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland District Health Board) Notice 2019 (LI 2019/184).

Reprint as at 9 August 2019

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Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013

(SR 2013/319)

Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013: revoked (after expiring on 15 August 2018), on 9 August 2019, by clause 5 of the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland District Health Board) Notice 2019 (LI 2019/184).

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—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013.

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 Auckland DHB quality assurance activity described in the Schedule is protected.

Schedule Description of Auckland DHB quality assurance activity

cl 3

1 Interpretation

In this schedule,—

activity means the Auckland DHB quality assurance activity described in clause 4

participant means a health practitioner employed by, or providing clinical services to, the Auckland DHB.

2 Objective

The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of participants by assessing the clinical care provided by individual participants through clinical case reviews and audits in order to improve patient outcomes.

3 Information

The activity is based on information derived from participants.

4 Activity

The activity involves—

(a)

assessing the clinical care provided by individual participants by—

(i)

reviewing clinical case notes, including laboratory, imaging, and other supporting information; and

(ii)

presenting cases to participants; and

(iii)

discussing cases; and

(iv)

holding clinical audit meetings of cases; and

(v)

undertaking peer reviews of clinical practices; and

(b)

making recommendations on how participants can improve their performance; and

(c)

monitoring the implementation of any such recommendations.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of August 2013.

 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 Auckland DHB 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

  • 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: 22 August 2013.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland DHB) Notice 2013 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 (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Auckland District Health Board) Notice 2019 (LI 2019/184): clause 5

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