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2020/337 Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2020 Pursuant to section 54(3) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in that subsection, gives the following notice.
Contents Title Commencement Interpretation Declaration of protected quality assurance activities Revocation Page 1 1 1 2 3 Title Notice This notice is the Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity— Waikato DHB) Notice 2020.

Commencement This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
Interpretation In this notice,— specified health practitioner means a health practitioner who— (a) (b) (c) is employed by Waikato DHB; or is authorised by Waikato DHB to provide health services; or has an access agreement with Waikato DHB Waikato DHB means the Waikato District Health Board established by sec- tion 19(1) of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000.
1 cl 4 4 (1) Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2020 2020/337 Declaration of protected quality assurance activities The following quality assurance activities (set out in subclauses (2) and (3)) are protected to the extent that they are undertaken by Waikato DHB in relation to specified health practitioners: (a) mortality and morbidity reviews, and clinical case reviews: (b) credentialing of specified health practitioners in the context of their clin- ical unit or service.
Mortality and morbidity reviews, and clinical case reviews (2) The activity involves— (a) (b) (c) examining patient records; and conducting case note reviews; and identifying and analysing patient outcomes arising from the conduct of mortality and morbidity studies; and (d) making recommendations on how the specified health practitioners who are engaging in the activity can improve their performance; and (e) examining information and documentation arising from mortality, mor- bidity, and case reviews.
Credentialing of specified health practitioners in the context of their clinical unit or service (3) The activity involves— (a) (b) ensuring that each specified health practitioner’s scope of practice is consistent with the requirements of their position description and in the context of their clinical unit or service to ensure patient and staff safety; and external peer review, which must occur with the involvement and input of all relevant professional advisers and include the review of the fol- lowing in relation to the specified health practitioner’s clinical unit or service: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) the clinical work that the specified health practitioner’s clinical unit or service is funded to provide; and the clinical unit’s or service’s goals and objectives; and the adequacy of the facilities and equipment; and the composition and skill level of the clinical team, including all specified health practitioners; and the workload of the specified health practitioner; and the service outcome data, including clinical outcomes, patient sat- isfaction, and performance to plan; and 2 2020/337 Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2020 Explanatory note (vii) the clinical teaching and research within the clinical unit or ser- vice; and (viii) the clinical quality assurance and improvement processes; and (ix) the staff training and development environment.
5 Revocation The Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2014 (LI 2014/310) is revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of December 2020.

Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health.

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

This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

It declares the quality assurance activities described in clause 4 to be protected.
Qual- ity assurance activities are activities that are undertaken to improve the practices or competence of health practitioners by assessing the health services performed by those practitioners.
The effect of protecting a quality assurance activity is that— • • • any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confi- dential; and any documents brought into existence solely for the purpose of the activity are confidential; and the persons who engage in the activity in good faith are immune from civil liability.

The protections given 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 implication, a particular individual.

The notice revokes the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2014.

This notice remains in force for 5 years, unless revoked before then.

3 Health Practitioners (Protected Quality Assurance Activity—Waikato DHB) Notice 2020 2020/337 Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.
Date of notification in Gazette: 22 December 2020.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2020 4