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2009/277 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD) Notice 2009 Pursuant to section 54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assur- ance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in section 54(3) of that Act, gives the following notice.
1 2 3 1 2 Contents Title Commencement Declaration of protected quality assurance activity Schedule Description of Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD Page 1 1 2 2 Notice Title This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD) Notice 2009.

Commencement This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
1 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD) Notice 2009 2009/277 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity The Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD de- scribed in the Schedule is a protected quality assurance activ- ity.
Schedule Description of Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD cl 3 Interpretation In this schedule,— activity means the entering of information into MyCPD as described in clause 4 MyCPD means the online continuing professional develop- ment programme of the Royal Australasian College of Physi- cians participant means a medical practitioner who is— (a) (b) practising in New Zealand; and enrolled in the activity.
Objective The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of participants by encouraging them to assess and reflect on the health services they perform.

Information The activity is based on information derived from the partici- pants.
Activity The activity involves participants entering, from time to time, the following information into MyCPD: (a) details of their performance (being the health services they perform and the clinical judgements they make), which may identify deficiencies in skills or knowledge; and cl 3 3 1 2 3 4 2 2009/277 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD) Notice 2009 Explanatory note (b) (c) (d) the analysis of any process or practice resulting in an outcome for patients that may, but need not, be an ad- verse outcome; and records of patient satisfaction surveys; and self-assessments in respect of— (i) how their performance compares with practice standards; and how their performance may be improved (for example, by implementing changes in practice or undertaking further learning on a particular topic).
(ii) Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of September 2009.

Hon Tony Ryall, Minister of Health.

Explanatory note This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its gen- eral effect.

This notice, which comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, declares the Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD to be a protected quality assurance activity.
The effect of this declaration is that— • any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confidential; and any documents brought into existence solely for the purposes of the activity are confidential; and the persons who engage in the activity in good faith are im- mune from civil liability.

• • The protections afforded by this notice are subject to certain statutory exceptions.
For example, this notice does not prohibit the disclosure of information that does not identify, either expressly or by implica- tion, a particular individual.

3 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Royal Australasian College of Physicians MyCPD) Notice 2009 2009/277 Under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assur- ance Act 2003, this notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, unless it is sooner revoked.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 1 October 2009.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

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