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2015/27 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 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 4 1 2 3 Contents Title Commencement Revocation of this notice Declaration of protected quality assurance activity Schedule Description of quality assurance activity Page 1 1 1 2 2 Notice Title This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Ac- tivity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015.

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

1 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 2015/27 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity The quality assurance activity described in the Schedule is pro- tected.
Schedule Description of quality assurance activity cl 4 Interpretation In this schedule,— activity means the quality assurance activity described in clause 4 Midlands Health Network means Midlands Health Network Limited near miss incident means an event that— (a) nearly leads to avoidable physical, emotional, or psy- chological harm to a patient; and results from the care provided, or not provided, by 1 or more health practitioners, rather than from the patient’s underlying medical condition (b) participant means a health practitioner who provides health services at a general practice that is a member of Pinnacle In- corporated patient safety incident means an event that— (a) leads to avoidable physical, emotional, or psychological harm to a patient; and results from the care provided, or not provided, by 1 or more health practitioners, rather than from the patient’s underlying medical condition.
(b) Objective The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of participants by participants reporting and re- flecting on patient safety incidents and near miss incidents.

Information The activity is based on information derived from the partici- pants.
cl 4 4 1 2 3 2 2015/27 4 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 Explanatory note Activity The activity involves— (a) participants recording patient safety incidents and near miss incidents; and participants sharing that information with Midlands Health Network; and (b) (c) Midlands Health Network analysing and documenting the information; and (d) Midlands Health Network reporting trends in the infor- mation to the general practices that are members of Pin- nacle Incorporated; and participants reflecting on the incidents and trends.
(e) Dated at Wellington this 12th day of February 2015.

Hon Jonathan Coleman, 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 no- tification in the Gazette, declares the quality assurance activity under- taken by members of Pinnacle Incorporated to be protected.
The ef- fect 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 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 3 Explanatory note Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 2015/27 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.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 19 February 2015.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

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