Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

3: Competence, fitness to practise, and quality assurance

58 Reporting requirements




    58 Reporting requirements

  (1)  Within 2 months after the expiry of each period of 6 months (the
reporting period) that follows the date
of a notice under section 54 declaring a quality assurance activity to be
protected, the person for the time being appointed to be responsible for the
activity must give each provider of health services (the
provider) who has, or whose employees or agents have, been
assessed in the reporting period through the activity a report relating to the
reporting period that sets out information on the following matters:

      (a)  any problems or issues concerning the operations of the provider
that have been identified in the course of the activity:

      (b)  any action that has been taken, as a result of the activity, to
resolve or address the problems or issues stated under paragraph (a):

      (c)  any recommendations that have been, or are to be, made to the
provider as a result of the activity:

      (d)  the manner in which the implementation of the recommendations stated
under paragraph (c) is to be monitored:

      (e)  the manner in which improvements in the competence or practice of
the provider or any of the agents or employees of the provider are to be
monitored.

  (2)  Within 2 months after the expiry of each period of 1 year (the reporting
period) that follows the date of a notice
under section 54 declaring a quality assurance activity to be protected, the
person for the time being appointed to be responsible for the activity must
give the Minister a report that contains the information set out in the reports
given by the person under subsection (1) to providers in respect of the
reporting period.

  (3)  A report given under subsection (2) may not identify, either expressly
or by implication, a particular individual.

  (4)  Subsection (2) is subject to subsection (3).

  (5)  As soon as practicable after the person for the time being appointed to
be responsible for a protected quality assurance activity gives a provider or
the
Minister a report under this section, the person must give the sponsor of the
activity a copy of the report.
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