New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES ACT 2007 - SECT 38

38 Register of patients

(1) The licensee of a private health facility must cause a register of patients to be kept at the facility.

(2) The register of patients is to be kept in a form approved by the Secretary subject to any requirements that may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The following particulars must be entered in the register of patients--

(a) the name, age and residential address of each patient at the facility,

(b) the date when the patient was received at the facility,

(c) the date when the patient left the facility or, in the event of the patient's death, the date of death,

(d) the name of the practitioner attending the patient,

(e) any other particulars that may be prescribed.

(4) The particulars must be entered in the register of patients by the persons, at the time, and in the manner, prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.

(5) A person must not--

(a) enter in the register of patients any particular that the person knows or has reason to believe to be false or misleading in a material particular, or

(b) wilfully fail to enter in the register of patients any particular that the person is required to enter.

: Maximum penalty--1,000 penalty units.