Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020
Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020: revoked, on 17 September 2025, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).
Version as at 17 September 2025
Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020
(LI 2020/250)
Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020: revoked, on 17 September 2025, pursuant to section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).
Note
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.
Pursuant to section 54(3) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in that subsection, gives the following notice.
Notice
1 Title
This notice is the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020.
2 Commencement
This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
3 Interpretation
In this notice,—
AHGL means Acurity Health Group Limited
specified health practitioner means a health practitioner who is authorised by AHGL to provide health services at its facilities.
4 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity
The following quality assurance activities are protected to the extent that they are undertaken by AHGL in relation to specified health practitioners:
(a)
reviewing patients’ records; and
(b)
auditing patients’ records in conjunction with the AHGL Audit Programme; and
(c)
analysing data on patients that relates to the following:
(i)
admission and discharge, demographics, and length of stay:
(ii)
morbidity and mortality:
(iii)
unplanned returns to theatre or to the endoscopy suite:
(iv)
unplanned transfers to other health facilities:
(v)
unplanned transfer to a higher level of care during an admission:
(vi)
major collapse:
(vii)
major neurovascular injury:
(viii)
major viscous or solid organ injury:
(ix)
wrong site or side or person treated:
(x)
readmissions to an AHGL facility:
(xi)
clinical indicators, including hospital-acquired infections, falls, pressure areas, and medication errors; and
(d)
identifying and analysing adverse outcomes, including by analysis associated with reviews undertaken; and
(e)
reviewing and analysing patient care processes, patient management and treatment decisions, and treatment outcomes; and
(f)
peer review meetings to study and discuss adverse outcomes identified and the provision of information for peer review purposes; and
(g)
reviewing and analysing all clinical incident documentation; and
(h)
presenting the results of the analysis undertaken in relation to paragraphs (a) to (g) to the internal clinical governance and advisory committees and discussing those results.
Dated at Wellington this 5th day of September 2020.
Hon Jenny Salesa,
for the 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 the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette. It declares the quality assurance activities described in clause 4 to be protected.
Quality assurance activities are activities that are undertaken to improve the practices or competence of health practitioners by assessing the health services performed by those practitioners. The effect of protecting a quality assurance activity 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.
This notice remains in force for 5 years, unless sooner revoked.
Date of notification in Gazette: 17 September 2020.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Acurity Health Group Limited) Notice 2020 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
2 Legal status
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
3 Editorial and format changes
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.
4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48): section 54(4)