Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2005: revoked, on 8 July 2011 (after expiring on 11 July 2010), by clause 4 of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2011 (SR 2011/240).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

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 gives the following notice.

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity

4 Revocation

Schedule
Description of Wakefield Hospital Quality Assurance Activity

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2005.

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 Wakefield Hospital Quality Assurance Activity described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.

4 Revocation

The Medical Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2002 (SR 2002/116) is revoked.

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1 Objective

The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of health practitioners engaged in the activity by assessing the health services performed by those health practitioners.

2 Method

(1) The activity is based on information derived from health practitioners who provide health services at Wakefield Hospital on behalf of Wakefield Hospital Limited.
(2) The activity involves—
- (a) the examination of patients' records; and
- (b) the analysis of the following data on patients:
  - (i) admission and discharge; and
  - (ii) morbidity; and
  - (iii) mortality; and
  - (iv) outcomes of treatment; and
- (c) the identification and analysis of any process or practice that results in an outcome for patients which may, but need not, be an adverse outcome; and
- (d) the holding of peer review meetings to study and discuss adverse outcomes identified, and the provision of information for peer review purposes; and
- (e) the presentation to medical advisory and other hospital committees of the results obtained under paragraphs (a) to (d), and discussion of those results; and
- (f) the making of recommendations on how the 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) the facilitation and monitoring of the implementation of any such recommendations.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of July 2005.

Hon Annette King,
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 Wakefield Hospital Quality Assurance Activity 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.

This notice revokes the Medical Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2002, which was issued under the provisions of the Medical Practitioners Act 1995 and applied only to medical practitioners.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 18 August 2005.

1General
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2005. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the notice as at 8 July 2011, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:
- •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)
- •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)
- •layout of provisions, including:
  - •indentation
  - •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)
- •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
- •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)
- •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)
- •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
- •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •case and appearance of letters and words, including:
  - •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)
  - •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters
- •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
- •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2011 (SR 2011/240): clause 4

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

Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Wakefield Hospital) Notice 2005