Health Insurance Act 1973 Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under Section 124X (QAA No. 2/2003) (Cth)
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973
DECLARATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY
UNDER SECTION 124X
QAA No. 2/2003
I, KAY CHRISTINE LESLEY PATTERSON, Minister for Health and Ageing, under Section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act):
AMEND the declaration of quality assurance activity made on 7 November 2001 (QAA No. 4/2001) by:
(i)omitting all references to Item 2, (Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons – Cardiac Surgery Database Project for Adult Patients undergoing Cardiac Surgery Procedures) from that declaration; and
(ii)omitting Item 2 from the Schedule to that declaration, and
DECLARE the Activities described in the Schedule (the Activities) to be quality assurance Activities to which Part VC of the Act applies being satisfied in relation to the Activities that:
the persons engaging in the Activities are authorised to do so by an association of health professionals at Items 1, 2 and 3;
having regard to the following it is in the public interest that Part VC of the Act apply to the Activities:
(a)the Activities at Items 1, 2 and 3 include the disclosure of information that concerns the quality of services assessed, evaluated or studied or the factors affecting the quality of the services;
(b)the disclosure of information referred to in subparagraph (a) does not identify, either expressly or by implication, particular individuals;
(c)the proposed time and manner of disclosure of all information referred to in subparagraph (a) is acceptable to me;
(d)the Activities at Items 1, 2 and 3 are to be engaged in in more than one State or Territory;
(e)the Activity at Item 3 is of a kind that has not been engaged in previously in Australia; and
(f)the application of Part VC of the Act to the Activity at Item 3 is necessary to make the Activity effective by encouraging the full participation in the Activity by persons who provide health services;
(g)the Activities at Items 1 and 2 are of a kind that have been engaged in previously in Australia; and
(h)the application of Part VC of the Act to the Activities at Items 1 and 2 is necessary to make the Activities effective by encouraging the participation in the Activities by persons who provide health services to a greater extent than the participation, by persons who provide health services, in previous Activities.
………………Kay Patterson…………………………………………………………
Minister for Health and Ageing
Dated: 1st August 2003
SCHEDULE
QAA No. 2/2003
DECLARED QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY TO WHICH PART VC OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 APPLIES
Item Description of Quality Assurance Activity
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1. Person engaging in activity: The Australian Cardiac Surgery Research Institute (ACSRI)
Title: Cardiac Surgery Database Project.
Description: The Activity involves collecting and standardising patients’ surgical and clinical data in Cardiac Surgery Units to:
·provide national as well as local level information about the quality of cardiac surgery;
·collate risk-adjusted data for research, risk assessment and outcome prediction;
·establish appropriate benchmarking standards for selected surgical procedures; and
·improve the quality of patient care through developing effective peer review mechanisms.
2. Person engaging in activity: Murray Plains Division of General Practice.
Title: Small Hospital Clinical Risk Management Program.
Description: The Activity involves screening hospital medical records to identify adverse events and select cases for review.
Person engaging in activity: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Title: Practice Improvement Program for Rural Obstetricians and Anaesthetists.
Description: The Activity involves open discussions of the outcomes of obstetric care based on a structured process for reviewing perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity.
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