New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 20M

20M Appointment of RCA teams to deal with reportable incidents

(1) When a reportable incident involving a relevant health services organisation is reported to the chief executive officer of the organisation, the organisation is to appoint a root cause analysis team in relation to the reportable incident.

(2) The relevant health services organisation is, subject to the regulations, to appoint such members of the RCA team as the organisation considers appropriate to undertake the functions of the RCA team in relation to the reportable incident.

(3) The relevant health services organisation is to cause a written record to be kept of the persons appointed under this section as members of the RCA team in relation to a particular reportable incident.