Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Programme) Notice 2016: revoked, on 22 November 2019, by clause 5 of the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Programme) Notice 2019 (LI 2019/279).

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(3) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in that subsection, gives the following notice.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Revocation of this notice
4	Interpretation
5	Declaration of protected quality assurance activities
	Gazette Information
	Reprint notes

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Programme) Notice 2016.

2 Commencement

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

3 Revocation of this notice

This notice is revoked on 24 February 2021.

4 Interpretation

In this notice, specified health practitioner means an orthopaedic surgeon who is participating in the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Continuing Professional Development Programme as the visited orthopaedic surgeon.

5 Declaration of protected quality assurance activities

The following quality assurance activities are protected to the extent that they are undertaken by orthopaedic surgeons acting on behalf of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association in relation to specified health practitioners:

(a)

reviewing the following information provided by the specified health practitioner:

(i)

information about the specified health practitioner’s practice gathered from feedback questionnaires completed by colleagues, co-workers, and patients; and

(ii)

a summary of the surgical audits relating to the specified health practitioner’s practice from the previous 2 years; and

(iii)

the specified health practitioner’s operating list from the previous 2 months; and

(iv)

current data from the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association National Joint Registry relating to the specified health practitioner’s practice; and

(v)

a copy of the specified health practitioner’s continuing professional development activities to date; and

(vi)

a completed practice profile questionnaire; and

(b)

discussing the information provided under paragraph (a) with the specified health practitioner; and

(c)

reviewing the specified health practitioner’s practice surroundings, facilities, and processes; and

(d)

observing the specified health practitioner perform a surgical session; and

(e)

conducting a concluding interview with the specified health practitioner; and

(f)

providing a report including recommendations that address any shortcomings to the specified health practitioner and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Committee.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day April of 2016.

Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman,
Minister of Health.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 21 April 2016.

Reprints notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Programme) Notice 2016 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—New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Practice Visit Programme) Notice 2019 (LI 2019/279): clause 5

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