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2013/475 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand) Notice 2013 Pursuant to section 54(3) of the Health Practitioners Competence As- surance Act 2003, the Minister of Health gives the following notice after complying with that subsection.
Contents Title Commencement Declaration of protected quality assurance activity Revocation of related notice Revocation of this notice Schedule Description of CICM quality assurance activity Page 1 1 2 2 2 2 Notice Title This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Ac- tivity—College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand) Notice 2013.

Commencement This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
1 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand) Notice 2013 2013/475 cl 3 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity The CICM quality assurance activity described in the Sched- ule is protected.

Revocation of related notice The Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activ- ity—Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine) Notice 2008 (SR 2008/431) is revoked.
Revocation of this notice This notice is revoked at the end of the period for which it remains in force under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.
Schedule Description of CICM quality assurance activity cl 3 Interpretation In this schedule,— activity means the activity described in clause 4 of this sched- ule CICM means the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Aus- tralia and New Zealand CPD programme means the Continuing Professional Devel- opment programme of CICM participant means a health practitioner who is enrolled in the CPD programme, whether or not a fellow of CICM.
Objective The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of participants by assessing the health services performed by them.

Information The activity is based on information derived from participants.
3 4 5 1 2 3 2 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand) Notice 2013 Explanatory note 2013/475 4 Activity The activity involves the following quality assurance activities undertaken under the CPD programme: (a) clinical audits: patient surveys: critical reviews: participating in— (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) morbidity and mortality meetings: peer reviews: (v) (vi) national or regional quality assurance meetings: (vii) hospital quality assurance committee meetings: (viii) hospital management meetings primarily about (b) (c) quality assurance: being an inspector at hospital accreditation visits: facilitating— (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) formal audits of the participant’s own practice: peer review of the participant’s own practice: self-assessment tests: practical skills workshops: simulator and skills courses: professional practice review.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of November 2013.

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 comes into force on the day after notification in the Gazette.

It declares the CICM quality assurance activity described in the Schedule to be a protected quality assurance activity.
3 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand) Notice 2013 Explanatory note 2013/475 The effect of the 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 people who engage in the activity in good faith are immune 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.

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 revoked before then.
This notice revokes the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Ac- tivity—Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine) Notice 2008.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 5 December 2013.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

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