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2009/155
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.
This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program) Notice 2009.
This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
The ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.
Schedule |
In this Schedule,—
activity means the ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program
ANZCA means the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
participant means a medical practitioner who is—
(a) practising in New Zealand; and
(b) enrolled in the activity.
The objectives of the activity are to enable—
(a) study of the conditions or circumstances that may affect the quality of the health services performed by the participants; and
(b) review of participants' practices to ensure the best possible clinical standards of practice are achieved and maintained.
The activity is based on information derived from the participants.
The activity involves—
(a) developing individual continuing professional development plans for participants; and
(b) conducting clinical audits to assess and evaluate the care of patients; and
(c) holding case conferences—
(i) to review the anaesthesia management of individual patients; and
(ii) to determine the best options for subsequent anaesthesia management of those patients; and
(d) holding case conferences, for cases involving patient death or serious morbidity during a period of anaesthesia management,—
(i) to review the anaesthesia management of individual patients; and
(ii) to determine whether, in any case, the anaesthesia management contributed to the mortality or morbidity of a patient, or whether the mortality or morbidity of a patient could have been averted; and
(e) reviewing the clinical audits referred to in paragraph (b) and the case conferences referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d); and
(f) reviewing patient care processes; and
(g) submitting perioperative mortality reports to mortality committees; and
(h) critical incident monitoring to identify and analyse any process or practice resulting in an outcome for patients that may, but need not, be an adverse outcome; and
(i) conducting peer reviews to evaluate the performance of a participant or group of participants; and
(j) conducting practice peer reviews (on-site appraisals of a participant's practice by a Fellow approved by ANZCA); and
(k) reviewing patient satisfaction surveys; and
(l) making recommendations on how participants can improve their performance so as to—
(i) improve the quality of care they provide; and
(ii) reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes; and
(m) facilitating and monitoring the implementation of recommendations described in paragraph (l).
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of May 2009.
Hon Tony Ryall,
Minister of Health.
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 ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program 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 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Anaesthetists—Maintenance of Professional Standards Program) Notice 2004, which has expired.
Date of notification in Gazette: 4 June 2009.
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.