Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Private Health Facilities Amendment

(Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014

under the

Private Health Facilities Act 2007

Her 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 adopt an updated Ministry of Health policy directive that sets out the type of incidents that are a reportable incident for the purpose of Part 4 (Root cause analysis teams) of the Private Health Facilities Act 2007. That Part 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 Private Health Facilities Act 2007, including the definition of reportable incident in section 41 and section 65 (the general regulation-making power).

Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents)

Regulation 2014

under the

Private Health Facilities Act 2007

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents)
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

Clause 16

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

16      Reportable incident

For the purpose of the definition of reportable incident in section 41 of the Act, 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, is adopted.