Health Administration Amendment (Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Health Administration Amendment

(Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014

under the

Health Administration Act 1982

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Health Administration Act 1982.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to adopt an updated Ministry of Health policy directive that sets out the type of incidents that are a reportable incident for the purpose of Division 6C (Root cause analysis teams) of Part 2 of the Health Administration Act 1982. That Division provides for the appointment of root cause analysis teams to deal with any reportable incident and to make certain notifications or reports about the incident.

This Regulation is made under the Health Administration Act 1982, including the definition of reportable incident in section 20L and section 34 (the general regulation-making power).

Health Administration Amendment (Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Health Administration Amendment (Reportable Incidents)

Regulation 2014

under the

Health Administration Act 1982

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Health Administration Amendment (Reportable Incidents)
Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 10 February 2014 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Health Administration Regulation 2010

Clause 13

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

13      Reportable incident

For the purpose of the definition of reportable incident in section 20L of the Act, a reportable incident means an incident of a type set out in Appendix D of the document entitled Ministry of Health Policy Directive PD2014_004 Incident Management Policy, as published in the Gazette on 24 January 2014.