SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) ACT 2015 (NO. 51 OF 2015)
Table of Provisions
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
- 1 Purposes
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Objective
- 5 Change in name of hospital
- 6 Crown bound
- 7 Act not to affect employment contracts or workplace instruments
PART 2--NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS
Division 1--General
- 8 Ratio includes ratio variation
- 9 Application of ratios
- 10 Application of ratios in small hospitals
- 11 Out of hours coordination of hospitals
- 12 Rounding method
- 13 Demand higher or lower than expected
- 14 Skill mix
Division 2--Nurse to patient ratios
- 15 Level 1 hospitals
- 16 Level 2 hospitals
- 17 Level 3 hospitals
- 18 Level 4 hospitals
- 19 Aged high care residential wards
- 20 Emergency departments
- 21 Coronary care units
- 22 High dependency units
- 23 Palliative care inpatient units
- 24 Rehabilitation and geriatric evaluation management
- 25 Operating theatres
- 26 Post-anaesthetic recovery rooms
- 27 Special care nurseries
- 28 Neonatal intensive care units
Division 3--Midwife to patient ratios
- 29 Meaning of patient
- 30 Antenatal and postnatal wards
- 31 Delivery suites
Division 4--Variations from ratios
- 32 Quality of care paramount
- 33 Redistribution of nursing or midwifery hours
- 34 Below ratios distribution
- 35 Alternative staffing model
- 36 Local agreements to vary
PART 3--COMPLIANCE AND REPORTING
- 37 Power to give safe patient care compliance direction
- 38 Procedure for giving safe patient care compliance direction
- 39 Effect of safe patient care compliance direction
- 40 Obligation to report certain matters
PART 4--ENFORCEMENT
- 41 Local dispute resolution
- 42 Referral to Magistrates' Court
- 43 Civil penalty
- 44 Notification requirements
PART 5--GENERAL
PART 6--SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL
- 46 Meaning of Agreement
- 47 Pre-existing higher staffing arrangements
- 48 Pre-existing lower staffing arrangements
- 49 Saving of pre-existing variations
