Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2020 (NSW)

New South Wales

Private Health Facilities Amendment

(Reportable Incidents) Regulation 2020

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.

BRAD HAZZARD, MP

Minister for Health and Medical Research

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to adopt an updated Ministry of Health policy directive that sets out the type of incident that is a reportable incident for the purposes of Part 4 of the Private Health Facilities Act 2007. That Part provides for the appointment of root cause analysis teams to deal with reportable incidents and to make certain notifications and reports in relation to incidents.

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 2020 [NSW]

Private Health Facilities Amendment (Reportable Incidents)

Regulation 2020

under the

Private Health Facilities Act 2007

1      Name of Regulation

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

Regulation 2020.

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 2017

Clause 17 Reportable incident

Omit clause 17(1). Insert instead—

(1)	For the purposes of the definition of reportable incident in section 41 of the Act, Appendix D of the document entitled Ministry of Health
Policy Directive PD2020_020 Incident Management Policy, as
published in the Gazette on 22 June 2020, is adopted.