Health Administration Act 1982 HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - Made under the Health Administration Act 1982 - As at 1 August 2005 - Reg 523 of 2000 TABLE OF PROVISIONS TABLE OF PROVISIONS PART 1 - PRELIMINARY 1. Name of Regulation 2. Commencement 3. Definitions PART 2 - QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMITTEES 4. Quorum 5. Chairperson 6. Presiding member 7. Voting 8. General procedure 9. Information available to the public 10. Reports to the Minister 11. Reports to prescribed establishments PART 2A - ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS TEAMS 11A. Relevant health services organisation 11B. Reportable incident 11C. Disclosure of information PART 3 - MISCELLANEOUS 12. Prescribed establishments 13. Disclosure of information 14. Savings provision SCHEDULE 1 HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 1 Name of Regulation 1 Name of Regulation This Regulation is the Health Administration Regulation 2000. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 2 Commencement 2 Commencement This Regulation commences on 1 September 2000. Note: This Regulation replaces the Health Administration (General) Regulation 1995 which is repealed on 1 September 2000 under section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 3 Definitions 3 Definitions (1) In this Regulation: "Committee" means a committee declared to be an approved quality assurance committee under section 20E of the Act. "the Act" means the Health Administration Act 1982. (2) The explanatory note, table of contents and notes in the text of this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 4 Quorum 4 Quorum (1) The quorum for a meeting of a Committee is to be: (a) if there is an odd number of members—a majority of the number of members, or (b) if there is an even number of members—one half of the number of members plus one. (2) Despite subclause (1), a meeting of a Committee at which a quorum is present may decide on a different number of members as the quorum for future meetings of the Committee. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 5 Chairperson 5 Chairperson Of the members of a Committee, one is to be elected as chairperson by a majority of those members. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 6 Presiding member 6 Presiding member (1) The chairperson of a Committee or, in the absence of the chairperson, another member elected to chair the meeting by the members present is to preside at a meeting of the Committee. (2) The person presiding at any meeting of a Committee has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 7 Voting 7 Voting A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of a Committee at which a quorum is present is the decision of the Committee. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 8 General procedure 8 General procedure The procedure for the calling of meetings of a Committee and for the conduct of business at those meetings is, subject to the Act, this Regulation and any rules of the prescribed establishment that established the Committee, to be as determined by that Committee. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 9 Information available to the public 9 Information available to the public (1) The Committee is to make the following information publicly available in the form of a written report: (a) general details of the services that have been assessed and evaluated by the Committee during the period to which the report relates, (b) any action taken (described in general terms) as a result of the assessment and evaluation process referred to in paragraph (a). (2) The report is to be in such form as the Committee determines and may be in the same form as the report provided to the Minister under clause 10. (3) The report is to be made at least annually or more often if the Committee so determines. (4) The report is to be available for public inspection free of charge during normal business hours at the principal place of administration of the prescribed establishment that established the Committee. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 10 Reports to the Minister 10 Reports to the Minister (1) Each Committee must, on or before 1 September in each year, furnish a report to the Minister of its activities during the year ending on the preceding 30 June. (2) The Minister may request that the Committee report at more frequent intervals. (3) A report furnished to the Minister is to include the following information: (a) the information required to be made publicly available under clause 9 and a statement indicating whether or not the requirements of that clause have been satisfied by inclusion of that information in the report, (b) a statement indicating whether or not the relevant experience of the members of the Committee are appropriate to the services assessed or evaluated by the Committee (that is, whether the requirements of section 20E (2) (c) of the Act are satisfied in relation to that experience), (c) a statement indicating whether or not the exercise of the functions of the Committee has been and will continue to be facilitated by the provision of immunities and protections afforded by Division 6B of Part 2 of the Act, (d) a statement indicating whether or not it has been and will continue to be in the public interest to restrict the disclosure of information compiled by the Committee in the course of the exercise of the Committee’s functions. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 11 Reports to prescribed establishments 11 Reports to prescribed establishments (1) At the completion of an assessment and evaluation of a particular service, a Committee is to submit a report to the prescribed establishment that provided the service and to the prescribed establishment that established the Committee. (2) The report is to include the following information: (a) a description of the service assessed and evaluated, (b) the general findings of the Committee, (c) any specific recommendations made by the Committee, including details of how such recommendations are to be implemented if adopted. (3) If a Committee recommends that certain action be taken with respect to a particular service provided by a prescribed establishment and that recommendation is adopted by that prescribed establishment and by the prescribed establishment that established the Committee, the Committee is to monitor the implementation of that recommendation and report to both establishments on the progress and outcome of that implementation. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 11A Relevant health services organisation 11A Relevant health services organisation (1) Each of the following statutory health corporations is prescribed as a relevant health services organisation for the purpose of Division 6C (Root cause analysis teams) of Part 2 of the Act: (a) Justice Health, (b) The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. (2) Each of the following affiliated health organisations is prescribed as a relevant health services organisation for the purpose of Division 6C of Part 2 of the Act: (a) Calvary Health Care Sydney Limited, (b) Catholic Health Care Services Limited, (c) Hope HealthCare Ltd, (d) Karitane, (e) Mercy Care Centre, Young, (f) Mercy Health Care (Newcastle) Limited, (g) Mercy Health Service Albury Limited, (h) Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, (i) Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies, (j) Sacred Heart Hospice Limited, (k) St Joseph’s Hospital Ltd, (l) St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney Ltd, (m) The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the diocese of Lismore, (n) Uniting Church in Australia. Note: Section 62 (1) of the Health Services Act 1997 provides that an organisation or institution whose name is included in column 1 of Schedule 3 to that Act is an affiliated health organisation in respect of any of its recognised establishments and recognised services (these being included in column 2 of Schedule 3 to that Act). HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 11B Reportable incident 11B Reportable incident For the purpose of Division 6C of Part 2 of the Act, a reportable incident means an incident of a type set out in Appendix B to the document entitled NSW Department of Health Policy Directive PD2005_604 Incident Management Policy published by the Department on 1 August 2005. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 11C Disclosure of information 11C Disclosure of information For the purposes of section 20P of the Act, a person who is or was a member of an RCA team may divulge or communicate information acquired by him or her as a member of an RCA team if the information is divulged or communicated to any of the following committees in connection with any research or investigation the committee is authorised to conduct under section 23 (1) of the Health Administration Act 1982: (a) Special Committee Investigating Deaths Under Anaesthesia (SCIDUA), (b) Special Committee Investigating Deaths Associated with Surgery (SCIDAWS), (c) The NSW Maternal and Perinatal Committee, (d) The NSW Mental Health Sentinel Events Review Committee. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 12 Prescribed establishments 12 Prescribed establishments Each of the following bodies is prescribed as a prescribed establishment (in addition to those specified in the definition of "prescribed establishment" in section 20D of the Act): (a) an establishment within the meaning of the Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centres Act 1988, (b) a nursing home within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1991, (c) a pathology laboratory operating at premises approved as an accredited pathology laboratory under section 23DN of the Health Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth, (d) the bodies listed in Schedule 1 to this Regulation. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 13 Disclosure of information 13 Disclosure of information (1) The object of this clause is to prescribe certain circumstances in which the disclosure of information obtained in connection with the administration or execution of the Act (or any other Act conferring or imposing responsibilities or functions on the Minister, Department, Director-General, Corporation or Foundation) will not constitute an offence under the Act. (2) For the purposes of section 22 (e) of the Act, the prescribed circumstances are that: (a) the disclosure is approved in writing by the Chief Health Officer of the Department (in the case of information that is epidemiological data that does not identify any individual to whom the information relates) or by the Director-General (in any case), and (b) the disclosure is made in accordance with such approval. (3) The Director-General is not to approve under this clause the disclosure of information that may identify an individual to whom the information relates unless: (a) the Director-General is satisfied that the individual consents to the disclosure of the information, or (b) the Director-General is satisfied that the disclosure is urgently required in the interests of public health, or (c) the information is required for the purpose of medical research and the Director-General is satisfied that the research is being conducted in accordance with any guidelines of the National Health and Medical Research Council the Director-General considers relevant, in particular any guidelines relating to the circumstances where the consent of an individual the subject of research need not be obtained and the protection of individual privacy. (4) An approval: (a) must describe the information authorised to be disclosed, and (b) must name the person or body to whom the disclosure is authorised, and (c) may be given subject to conditions specified in it. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - REG 14 Savings provision 14 Savings provision Any act, matter or thing that, immediately before the repeal of the Health Administration (General) Regulation 1995, had effect under that Regulation is taken to have effect under this Regulation. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 – Prescribed establishments (Clause 12) Australasian College of Dermatologists Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Australasian Epidemiological Association Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Inc. Australian and New Zealand Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology Australian Association of Clinical Biochemists Australian Association of Gerontology Australian Association of Neurologists Australian Association of Occupational Therapists Inc Australian Association of Social Workers Australian Association of Speech and Hearing Australian Association of Surgeons The Australian College of Clinical Psychologists Australian College of Health Service Executives The Australian College of Paediatrics Australian Dental Association (NSW Branch) Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine Australian Hospitals Association Australian Institute of Health Surveyors Australian Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists Australian Institute of Radiography Australian Orthopaedic Association Australian Physiotherapy Association Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine The Australian Red Cross Society in respect of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service in New South Wales Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine Inc The Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Limited Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons Inc Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Dietitians Association of Australia Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand Health Information Management Association of Australia (NSW Branch) Institute of Hospital Engineering, Australia Institute of Nursing Administrators of New South Wales and A.C.T. New South Wales Neurosurgical Association N.S.W. Institute of Psychiatry N.S.W. Institute of Trauma and Injury Management N.S.W. Operating Theatre Association Optometrists Association Australia (NSW Division) Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (New South Wales) Ltd Private Doctors of Australia Public Health Association of Australia Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Royal Australian College of General Practitioners The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Urological Society of Australasia HEALTH ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2000 - NOTES Historical notes The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes: _____________________________________________________________ |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________________| Table of amending instrumentsHealth Administration Regulation 2000 published in Gazette No 112 of 1.9.2000, p 9031 and amended as follows: Health Administration Amendment (Prescribed Establishments) Regulation 2004 (GG No 74 of 16.4.2004, p 2092) Health Legislation Further Amendment Act 2004 No 87. Assented to 30.11.2004. Date of commencement, 1.1.2005, sec 2 and GG No 200 of 17.12.2004, p 9305. _______________________________________________________________________ | | |Health Administration Amendment (Root Cause Analysis Teams) | |2005|(385)|Regulation 2005. GG No 94 of 29.7.2005, p 3936. | | | | | |_______________________________________________________________________| Table of amendments _______________________________________________ |_______________________________________________| |_______________________________________________| |_______________________________________________|