PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2010 - SECT 82 Health practitioners to make hospital CEO aware of notifiable diseases
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2010 - SECT 82
Health practitioners to make hospital CEO aware of notifiable diseases82 Health practitioners to make hospital CEO aware of notifiable diseases
(cf 1991 Act, s 69)
A health practitioner who is providing professional care or treatment at a
hospital and who suspects that--
(a) a patient at the hospital has a notifiable disease, or
(b) a former patient has had a notifiable disease while a patient at the hospital,has a duty, and is authorised, to ensure that the chief executive officer of the hospital is made aware of that fact.