Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centres Act 1988 Regulation relating to clinical records (1991-663) [GG No 180 of 20.12.1991] (NSW)

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PRIVATE HOSPITALS AND DAY PROCEDURE CENTRES

ACT 1988—REGULATION

(Relating to clinical records)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 180 of 20 December 1991]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centres Act 1988, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

J. P. HANNAFORD

Minister for Health and Community Services.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 6 January 1992.

Amendments

2. Schedule 1 to the Day Procedure Centres Regulation 1990 is amended by omitting clause 1.6.1 (2) (i) and by inserting instead the following paragraph:

(i) in a case where anaesthesia has been employed—the

anaesthetic record (which must comply with the
recommendations of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the
Royal Australiasian College of Surgeons in its publication
“The Anaesthetic Record”);

(ii)  the procedure report, including the pre-procedual and post-procedural dianoses, and a description of the findings, technique used and tissue removed or altered;

(iii) if tissue or body fluid has been removed, a pathological report on the issue or body fluid;

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(iv) in a case where the procedure has involved surgery—a record of the swab, sponge and instrument count;

(v) the post-procedural recovery record;

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Regulation is to amend the Day Procedure Centres Regulation 1990 so that the clinical records which it requires to be made extend to

all medical procedures, and not just surgical procedures, as at present.