Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014
Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014: revoked, on 23 July 2019, by clause 3.
Reprint as at 23 July 2019
Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014
(LI 2014/258)
Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014: revoked, on 23 July 2019, by clause 3.
Note
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.
Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.
Pursuant to section 54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in section 54(3) of that Act, gives the following notice.
Notice
1 Title
This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014.
2 Commencement
This notice comes into force on 28 August 2014.
3 Revocation of this notice
This notice is revoked at the end of the period for which it remains in force under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.
4 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ quality assurance activity called The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups Activity and described in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activity.
5 Revocation
Schedule Description of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups Activity
1 Interpretation
In this schedule, activity means The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups Activity.
2 Objective
The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of health practitioners engaged in the activity by assessing the health services performed by those health practitioners.
3 Information
The activity is based on information derived from health practitioners who participate in the activity and who are—
(a)
fellows of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists; or
(b)
registered with, or members of a group registered with, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
4 Activity
The activity involves—
(a)
reviewing, analysing, and monitoring clinical work through peer review; and
(b)
identifying and analysing adverse outcomes, in the context of peer review; and
(c)
making recommendations on how the health practitioners who engage in the activity can improve their performance so as to—
(i)
improve the quality of care they provide; and
(ii)
reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes; and
(d)
facilitating and monitoring the implementation of any such recommendations.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of July 2014.
Hon Tony Ryall,
Minister of Health.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice comes into force on 28 August 2014. It declares The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups Activity described in the Schedule to be a protected quality assurance activity. The effect of this declaration is that—
any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confidential; and
any documents brought into existence solely for the purposes of the activity are confidential; and
the persons who engage in the activity in good faith are immune from civil liability.
The protections afforded by this notice are subject to certain statutory exceptions. For example, this notice does not prohibit the disclosure of information that does not identify, either expressly or by implication, a particular individual.
Under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, this notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, unless it is revoked before then.
Date of notification in Gazette: 31 July 2014.
Reprints notes
1 General
This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.
2 Legal status
Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.
3 Editorial and format changes
Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint
Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Peer Review Groups) Notice 2014 (LI 2014/258): clause 3