New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH CARE COMPLAINTS ACT 1993 - SECT 22A

22A Associated complaints to be taken into account

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 previous finding or determination of a professional standards committee or a tribunal constituted under a health registration Act in respect of the practitioner, and

(ii) any recommendation made, or written statement of decision on a performance review provided, by a Performance Review Panel following a review of the practitioner’s professional performance under Part 5A of the Medical Practice Act 1992 and that is provided to the Commission by the New South Wales Medical Board.