New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH CARE COMPLAINTS ACT 1993 - SECT 22A

22A Associated complaints to be taken into account

(1) In assessing, and reviewing its assessment of, a complaint relating to a health practitioner or a health organisation, the Commission is to have regard to any of the following matters, to the extent the Commission reasonably considers the matter to be relevant to the complaint:

(a) any associated complaint,

(b) if the complaint relates to a health practitioner:

(i) any decision made in respect of the practitioner by an adjudication body within the meaning of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, and

(ii) any previous finding, determination, recommendation or decision made in respect of the practitioner by a committee, tribunal or panel under a repealed Act.

(2) In this section, "repealed Act" means any of the following Acts:

(a) Chiropractors Act 2001 ,

(b) Dental Practice Act 2001 ,

(c) Dental Technicians Registration Act 1975 ,

(d) Medical Practice Act 1992 ,

(e) Nurses and Midwives Act 1991 ,

(f) Optometrists Act 2002 ,

(g) Osteopaths Act 2001 ,

(h) Pharmacy Practice Act 2006 ,

(i) Physiotherapists Act 2001 ,

(j) Podiatrists Act 2003 ,

(k) Psychologists Act 2001 .