Private Health Facilities Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Private Health Facilities Amendment

(Disclosure of Information) Regulation 2014

under the

Private Health Facilities Act 2007

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

Regulation under the Private Health Facilities Act 2007.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to update references to the NSW Maternal and Perinatal Committee and the Special Committee Investigating Deaths Associated with Surgery, being committees to which a person who is or was a member of a root cause analysis team may divulge or communicate certain information in connection with any research or investigation the committees are authorised to conduct. The committees are now called the NSW Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Review Committee and the Collaborating Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality Committee (CHASM), respectively.

This Regulation is made under the Private Health Facilities Act 2007, including sections 45 (d) and 65 (the general regulation-making power).

Private Health Facilities Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Private Health Facilities Amendment (Disclosure of Information)

Regulation 2014

under the

Private Health Facilities Act 2007

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Private Health Facilities Amendment (Disclosure of
Information) Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Private Health Facilities Regulation 2010

(1) Clause 17 Disclosure of information

Omit “Special Committee Investigating Deaths Associated with Surgery

(SCIDAWS)” from clause 17 (b).

Insert instead “Collaborating Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality Committee

(CHASM)”.

(2)	Clause 17 (c)
Insert “Mortality Review” after “Perinatal”.