Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Compass Health Wellington Trust) Notice 2010: revoked, on 3 February 2015, 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.

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity

Schedule
Description of Compass Health Wellington Trust Quality Assurance Activity

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Compass Health Wellington Trust) Notice 2010.

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 Compass Health Wellington Trust Quality Assurance Activity described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.

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1 Interpretation

In this schedule,—

activity means the Compass Health Wellington Trust Quality Assurance Activity
participant means—
- (a) a health practitioner who is employed by Compass Health Wellington Trust and is participating in the quality assurance activity described in clause 4; or
- (b) a health practitioner who is not employed by Compass Health Wellington Trust, but who—
  - (i) provides health services on behalf of Compass Health Wellington Trust, or receives management support from Compass Health Wellington Trust; and
  - (ii) is participating in the quality assurance activity described in clause 4.

2 Objective

The objective of the activity is to—
- (a) improve the practices and competence of participants by assessing the health services performed by them; and
- (b) improve the delivery of health services and outcomes for patients.

3 Information

The quality assurance activity described in clause 4 is based on information derived from the participants.

4 Activity

The activity involves—
- (a) conducting clinical audits to review the clinical practice of participants and comparing the results of those audits as between individual participants; and
- (b) holding peer review meetings to review—
  - (i) individual patient cases:
  - (ii) clinical management:
  - (iii) patient care processes:
  - (iv) any other matters; and
- (c) identifying and analysing any process or practice that results in an outcome for patients that may, but need not, be an adverse outcome; and
- (d) making recommendations on how participants can improve their practices and competence so as to—
  - (i) improve the quality of health services they provide; and
  - (ii) improve outcomes for patients; and
  - (iii) reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes; and
- (e) facilitating and monitoring the implementation of recommendations described in paragraph (d).

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of February 2010.

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 Compass Health Wellington Trust 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 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: 11 February 2010.

Reprints notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Compass Health Wellington Trust) Notice 2010 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)

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