Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – QAA 1/2017 (Cth)

Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – QAA 1/2017

I, BRENDAN MURPHY, delegate of the Minister for Health, make this declaration under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated:                24^th April 2017

Professor Brendan Murphy

Chief Medical Officer

Department of Health

Contents

PART 1           PRELIMINARY3

1Name of Declaration3

2.Commencement3

3.Cessation3

4.Authority   3

5.          Schedules   3

6.          Declaration of quality assurance activity   3

SCHEDULE 1  4

SCHEDULE 2   4

Part 1          Preliminary

1. Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – QAA 1/2017.

1. Commencement

This Declaration commences on the day after registration.

1. Cessation

This Declaration will cease to be in force as if repealed at the end of 5 years after the Declaration is signed.

1. Authority

This Declaration is made under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

1. Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

1. Declaration of quality assurance activity

A quality assurance activity described in Schedule 1 to this Instrument is declared to be a quality assurance activity to which Part VC of the Health Insurance Act 1973 applies.

Schedule 1

Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – QAA 1/2017

1           Title

Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality (ANZASM)

Description:

The ANZASM comprises a group of regionally based surgical mortality audits, being the:

(a)Australian Capital Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(b)Northern Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(c)Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(d)South Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(e)Tasmanian Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(f)Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality;

(g)Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality; and

(h)New South Wales’ (NSW) Collaborative Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality.

The ANZASM is managed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).  Each of the regionally based audits is under the governance of the ANZASM, with the exception of the Collaborative Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality which is managed by the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission and co-governed in collaboration with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

The Activity provides a self-reporting and hospital or health system based notification of death system for surgeons, anaesthetists and radiologists, relating to patient deaths occurring in a hospital where:

(a)the patient was under the care of a surgeon (surgical admissions), whether or not an operation was performed; or

(b)the patient was under the care of a physician (medical and non-surgical admission) and there was surgical intervention.

The Activity includes, but is not limited to:

(a)notification of death by surgeon, radiologist or anaesthetist, hospital or health system;

(b)completion and review of relevant case form; and

(c)report to reporting surgeon, anaesthetist or radiologist by assessing surgeon;

(d)public reporting on aggregated data; and

(e)strategic and national review by the ANZASM Steering Committee.

ANZASM is a mandatory component of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Continuing Professional Development Scheme.

Schedule 2

Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – QAA 7/2016

1. The whole of the Declaration

Repeal the Declaration.