Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 45DA

             (1)  The Minister may, from time to time, prepare and publish a statement containing all or any of the relevant information in relation to:

                     (a)  an approved nursing home; or

                     (b)  premises that were an approved nursing home at any time during the period of 5 years before the publication of the statement.

             (2)  The following is relevant information for the purposes of subsection (1):

                     (a)  information relating to whether the standards referred to in section 45D have been satisfied in the provision of nursing home care in the nursing home;

                    (aa)  if those standards have not been satisfied--information relating to the action that will be taken by the proprietor of the nursing home to ensure that those standards will be satisfied;

                     (b)  the level of nursing home care provided in the nursing home by reference to those standards.

             (3)  Without limiting the means by which a statement is able to be published, a copy of a statement is to be made available for public inspection at each office of the Department.

             (4)  The information contained in a statement must not be such as to enable the identification of an individual patient of a nursing home.

             (5)  Before publishing a statement under this section, the Minister must allow the proprietor of the nursing home not less than 30 days to consider so much of the statement as does not consist of information covered by paragraph (2)(aa) and to make submissions to the Minister in relation to the content of so much of the statement as does not consist of information covered by paragraph (2)(aa).

             (6)  Where it appears to the Minister in the light of any submission made by the proprietor that the content of the statement should be altered, the Minister is to alter the statement accordingly before it is published.

             (7)  The Minister must not publish a statement that contains information that relates to a day on or after the day on which the Aged Care Act 1997 (other than Division 1 of that Act) commences.